LIHUE – Students are organizing a nationwide walkout day to raise awareness of the 60,000,000 unborn children who have been aborted since the 1973 Roe Vs. Wade ruling, according to a press release from the Family Research Council
The demonstration also seeks to ensure that school officials give different viewpoints the same treatment.
A grassroots pro-life organization on Kauai is calling for residents to participate in the event at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
“I’m very much pro-life and want to stir up this community,” said Annette Oda. “I know it’s going to be a difficult initiative, but it needs to be done.”
Oda said there are many like-minded people on Kauai.
“We cannot be silent about it, (abortion),” she said. “I just want something to be done. I want people to be moved to stand up for the cause.”
Oda said she’d like to expand the idea to include violence, depression, suicide, abuse and discrimination.
The nationwide walkout is in response to a California history teacher Julianne Benzel, who, started a discussion with her students, as to whether school officials would also allow students time out of class for a demonstration to raise awareness about lives lost to abortion.
Due to the discussion, Benzel was placed on two days of administrative leave.
Within that time, one of her students asked the school principal if they would be given the same accommodations as students who walked out on March 14, in remembrance of 17 students killed in Florida a month prior and to protest gun laws.
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Bethany Freudenthal, Courts, Crime and County reporter, 652-7891 bfreudenthal@thegardenisland.com
Calling a nonviable fetus a child is a lie that anti-abortion activists use with the intent of trying to shame vulnerable women from making the heart-rending decision of having an abortion. Anti-abortion activists have also been responsible for forcing doctors to give inaccurate and misleading information about abortion to their female patients.
In Roe v. Wade the United States Supreme Court ruled that women have a constitutional right to make their own personal medical decisions regarding abortion. The constitution also guarantees the right to free speech. But it does not give us the right to spread malicious lies. It is disgraceful.
Steven McMacken- Just when is a fetus nonviable? As technology improves, that date keeps getting moved further and further back. One day the technology kills a nonviable fetus and the next day as medical science improves, it becomes murder because the fetus is viable. Then again, why do you think viability, able to live on its own unsupported should be the defining line? People in comas are not viable and sometimes they wake up. Many disabled people need to be fed and cared for or they would die. Are you going to cheer on the dismemberment of these people and harvesting of their organs because they can’t live without assistance?
What malicious lies do you think are being perpetrated? Anything like Planned Parenthood who says abortions only make up 3% of their services, or that fetuses that are torn apart to be removed from the birth canal cannot feel pain, you mean lies like that?
People on the Left are proud to rely on settled science but this seems to be one big emotional trigger. Let’s try to keep it to scientific or provable points or even just opinions and leave out the insults and ad hominem attacks.
Mr. Lake: Maybe one day a fetus, at every point, will be viable due to advances in science. That day has not come. As we sit here now, a fetus cannot live on it’s own up to a certain time. You use other “examples” that aren’t even equal. You are doing the apples to oranges thing. A child in the womb is like a fish, whereas people who are in a coma are breathing air, etc… and have lived, walked, eaten, on their own, a full human. It’s more than living without assistance. Are they fully human?
How sustainable would the planet be with 60,000,000 more people? Human behavior is the number one cause to the current envirnomental and social problems.
I am guessing the NRA and the anti abortion people are behind this, not the students. This is crazy! The NRA is trying to take the heat off of the guns from the Florida mass murders, and of course the anti abortionists are throwing their money and weight in there, too. Leave the kids out of it. Next we will see the kids walking out of school for anti marijuana, or pro marijuana, anti Trump, or pro Trump, …. the list goes on and on!
I think it’s time for us hard working citizens to do a walk out. I’m going to call it the “I’m tired of seeing people do walk outs” walk out. I’m also up for a “I’m tired of my tax money being used to support lazy free loaders walk out” and let’s just throw in there a “Kauai’s limited choice of mayoral candidates is a joke this year walk out”.
We need to be able to kill old useless people too. Oh, wait! We just passed one! But how about the “non-viable” mentally retarded?
This walkout is a reaction to the walkout by students for gun control. The first walkout set a bad precedent, allowing students to take off from school to make political statements. This is the next logical step, tit for tat. How about kids stay in school and if they want to protest, do it on their own time? Otherwise one protest will produce another and another. How can you let them protest A, B and C but not X, Y and Z? Now you’re discriminating and violating their constitutional right to free speech. See what happens when you play stupid games? Honestly, they should have just been made to stay in school and learn something but now it’s too late.
pp sells you dead aborted baby’s body parts,tell them you want a portion of the money! Why should they be the only one who Profits from your dead baby?
You can talk about how “abortion is ok”, the fetus is “nonviable” (such a quaint little word used to cover up any semblance of respect for life) and on and on. Procreation is the most powerful, important, and “life direction” commitment a human being can make. Unfortunately, like so many other things the left tries to devalue, it has become nothing more than a convenience for a person’s turning the power of creation into nothing more than a fun night out. The act of using a vacuum cleaning device to suck out the brains of a fetus who has a heart beat, brain waves, and can feel pain is nothing more than a pathetic stain on humanity and the people who would support it. I feel sorry for you now, and especially sorry for you in whatever situation you find yourself in after you die.