GRAND LEDGE, Mich. — The student editor of a high school news magazine says district officials censored stories about abortion.

Zane McMillin, editor of The Comets' Tale at Grand Ledge High School, said administrators removed telephone numbers for Planned Parenthood and other agencies that provide information about pregnancy alternatives, and rewrote a summary of state law regarding parental consent.

About 1,000 copies of the revised magazine were set to be published this week.

"No matter what they say, it is censorship," McMillin told the Lansing State Journal for a May 2 story.

But the school's principal, Richard Pochert, said district policy gave administrators control and supervision over the magazine. He said state law barred schools from even remotely making abortion referrals, and that the district could lose 5% of its state funding if it broke the law.

One of the magazine stories focuses on a Grand Ledge student who regretted having an abortion; another story involves a girl who continued going to school after giving birth.

Pochert said officials changed the language about Michigan's abortion law because a student-written summary was inaccurate.

"There's a difference between censorship and compliance with Michigan's school code and Michigan law," Pochert said.

Steve Krumm, a spokesman for the district, said a letter about the controversy was mailed to parents on May 1.

A national expert on student publishing said Grand Ledge administrators could be interpreting their authority too broadly.

"It gets a little bit complicated, but school officials certainly don't have unlimited authority to censor anything they want," said Mike Hiestand, an attorney for the Arlington, Va.-based Student Press Law Center.