Wednesday, July 10, 2019

"Largest U.S. Teachers’ Union Endorses Abortion"



Link to article from the Washington Free Beacon:



From the article:

“Pro-life groups and teachers have expressed their outrage regarding the NEA's abortion support. Rebecca Friedrichs, founder of For Kids & Country and a 28-year public school teacher, says she and her fellow pro-life educators are not surprised by the NEA’s announcement.

"NEA's 2019 adopted New Business Items (NBIs) reveal what savvy teachers have known for decades: state and national teachers' unions are essentially the political action committee of the Far-Left," she told the Washington Free Beacon in an email. "As a conservative teacher, I am appalled that the NEA has the audacity to call me and teachers like me ‘the most misogynistic forces.' On one thing we agree — female leadership should be protected — but not at the cost of another's life."”

And,

“The union's endorsement of abortion also rankled pro-life activists, who said a union that purports to serve children should not target its future students. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List, is encouraging pro-life teachers and parents to stand up for their beliefs by vocally opposing the NEA's abortion stance.

"For more than three decades the NEA has denied taking a pro-abortion position. This vote removes all doubt about where they stand," she said in a release. "It is appalling and flies in the face of logic that America’s largest educators' union, claiming to speak for more than three million members nationwide, would side with the extreme abortion lobby in embracing an explicitly anti-child and anti-family stance. Furthermore, while purporting to be non-partisan, the Assembly went on record attacking President Trump and his pro-life agenda."”