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Should students at a school that receives public funding get credit for attending a political rally?
When I was a kid, politics in school were relegated to class elections and vaguely uninformed discussions during social studies (i.e. kids repeating what their parents said at the dinner table the night before). Teachers never really let on what they believed politically. As it should be, I think, considering how impressionable kids can be.
I get that private schools can do their own thing. Same thing for parochial schools. Still, it makes me a little sick to my stomach to read that a Catholic school in Winnipeg is awarding students with community service credit for participating in anti-abortion vigils, according to Jezebel.
The Winnipeg Free Press reported that kids who stood outside of a local women’s hospital with the Campaign Life Coalition will have their “work” count towards their community service requirements.
So, let me get this straight — make women who are exercising their legal right to an abortion feel uncomfortable by judging them with your presence and you’ve served your community? Ugh.
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Does mom have a right to a lawsuit?
Back in February, we covered the story of 6-year-old Anissa Fraser when her image was used on a billboard and paid for by the anti-abortion group Life Always. Set in the middle of New York City’s popular Soho, the billboard displayed a picture of Anissa that stated, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.”
After public outrage claiming racism, the billboard was taken down. Anissa’s mother Tricia said in February that when she took her daughter to a modeling agency over two years ago, she was told the photos taken might be used for stock photos but she had no idea that they would ever be used for anything so offensive. Yesterday, Tricia officially filed a lawsuit against the Texas based group, Life Always and Majella Cares dba Heroic Media.
State bills targeting abortion rights are rapdily increasing.
Restrictions on abortions are getting a lot of attention in the government lately. In fact, in over 30 states, there is legislature currently being proposed to restrict and/or limit abortions right now. In some cases, the proposed bills are being passed swiftly.
This past February, the House of Representatives also passed a measure that would bring an end to federal funding for Planned Parenthood.
It beckons the question of whether the Supreme Court would ever overturn Roe vs. Wade after it has been in effect for nearly 40 years.
This past week, Idaho’s Legislature approved a ban on most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. That ban came right on the heels of a bill in South Dakota which now mandates a three-day waiting period for abortions. It also requires women seeking abortions to undergo counseling at a pregnancy help center.
Anti abortion group 'Always Life' is using President Obama's image in their latest campaign.
The Texas-based anti-abortion group, Always Life is once again stirring up controversy and proliferating racial hatred. Their recent plans to install 30 billboards across the South Side of Chicago to draw attention to their claim that a disproportionate number of black women seek abortions, was met with opposition from anti-abortion campaigners.
Known for their over-the-top ads (back in February, they paid for a NYC billboard that displayed a picture of a little African-American girl and stated, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.”), their most recent ads contain President Obama. The billboard has a picture of Obama’s face next to the words “Every 21 minutes our next possible leader is aborted.” It also encourages women to visit an anti-abortion website, thatsabortion.com.
Little Anissa is just six years old.
The anti-abortion ad featuring a little African-American girl that states, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb,” was taken down after public outcry.
The billboard, paid for by the anti-abortion group Life Always was pulled down Thursday night by the Lamar Advertising Company, but the bad feelings surrounding it are still growing, particularly by the mother of the girl featured in the ad.
New Jersey mom Tricia Fraser is outraged that her 6-year-old daughter, Anissa, was included in the ad. She says that when she took her daughter to a modeling agency over two years ago, she was told the photos taken might be used for stock photos but she had no idea that they would ever be used for anything so offensive.
This anti abortion billboard is set to stay for three weeks.
A billboard aimed to push the anti-abortion movement is disturbing many people, particularly African Americans.
Set in the middle of New York City’s popular Soho, it displays a picture of a little African-American girl and states, “The most dangerous place for an African American is in the womb.”
The billboard was paid for by the anti-abortion group Life Always, and it hangs a short half-mile from a Planned Parenthood.
According to the Huffington Post, Life Always Board Member Pastor Stephen Broden explains his reasoning behind the billboard: “During Black History Month, we celebrate our history, but our future is in jeopardy as a genocidal plot is carried out through abortion.”
Another Life Board member, Rev. Derek McCoy agrees that the billboard does push the envelope, “We do think we’ve gone too far, and we do think it’s over the edge,” he said. “But the city’s abortion rates have crossed the mark and are over the top.
“Black children are an endangered species,” read the billboards along Georgia’s highways this month. The signs were paid for by Georgia’s largest anti-abortion organization, Georgia Right to Life. The group’s primarily white staff bought the ads as part of a campaign to woo more black women to their cause.
Georgia’s Right to Life is picking up on a larger effort by anti-choice groups around the country to frame abortion as a racist practice and organizations like Planned Parenthood as part of a vast conspiracy to prevent the births of black children.
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