Posted on 10/17/2006 5:00:24 PM PDT by wagglebee
NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC) in Washinton D.C. is calling for an investigation after a private school sponsored a field trip to a nearby abortuary, triggering outrage in the local community.
More than a dozen high school students from Solebury School, near Philadelphia, were taken by bus to the Planned Parenthood location in Warminster, Catholic News Service reported, where they spent several hours touring the clinic. According to CNS the students wore vests used by abortion staff when escorting women into the building.
Jason Gordon, social science teacher for the school and the trip organizer, said the outing was part of an “activism class.”
“This is outrageous,” said attorney Stephen G. Peroutka, chairman of NPLAC. “Why would somebody take children out of school and to an abortion business? Why would anybody think that was good for kids? Whoever did--shouldn’t be teaching, and the school should be investigated and the administrator fired.”
Pro-Life demonstrators who were conducting a prayer service outside the Planned Parenthood building at the time said the students were not allowed to talk to them.
“We tried to encourage them to come down and talk to us, to at least hear the other side of the story, but they weren’t allowed,” Eileen Stone, a prayer service participant, told the Catholic Standard & Times, newspaper of the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
“This is very, very disturbing,” Stone said. “These students are only seeing one side. Shouldn’t they see another perspective? After all, education is about seeing the whole picture.”
Gordon said the students weren’t permitted to speak with the pro-life demonstrators because he did not want them to become involved in activism--he denied that the student’s participation in the abortuary activities was itself a form of activism. When asked by the Times if he had ensured students were given both sides of the argument, he admitted he had not.
“I wouldn’t say it was necessarily both sides,” Gordon said. “I don’t want to polarize things by saying this is one side and that’s another. The opposite of pro-choice is anti-choice. The opposite of pro-life is anti-life. If they say they’re pro-life, I can say I agree with people living. I’m not for people dying. But I’m also for people having a choice. I’m not for people not having a choice to do what they want.”
Escorts at the facility began playing a radio to drown out the pro-life demonstration and openly mocked the demonstrators in front of the students, participants told the Times.
“It’s so irresponsible for adults to act like this in front of kids,” Stone said. “And I think it’s very irresponsible for the administrator of any school to send children here to be brainwashed.”
Dr. Paul Chaim Schenck, executive director of NPLAC, said the incident shows just how badly legislation is needed to protect minor children from abortion activism.
“A school excursion into the bowels of an abortion mill is a stark illustration of why the Senate let down American families by failing to pass legislation prohibiting anyone from taking a school-aged child to an abortionist without parental consent,” said Dr. Schenck in a press release yesterday. “This was an inexplicable and inexcusable act.”
Read full coverage from The Catholic Standard & Times:
http://www.cst-phl.com/061005/second.html
Um, I'm not completely sure that is the guy. I hope the admin removes that ASAP until I get confirmation.
From New Hope, PA comes this story of Lost Hope for the innocent murdered.
I actually don't think about stuff like this often at all, only when needed does it surface.
I'm happily married to a member of the opposite sex, btw. And according to your logic, those who think a lot about, say, how to oppose and defeat terrorism, also have a screw loose? Thinking or contemplating about evil and how to counteract or defeat it means the thinker has something wrong with him/her?
It's an activism class, but the teacher doesn't want the children to see the other side of the abortion debate because that would be... activism?
Somebody as contradictory as this shouldn't be teaching.
Not to mention that it's sick that they send students to abortion clinics. I'm just so sickened by the left.
They cherish "diversity" if that diversity doesn't include abortion opponents.
ACK! Wrong thread! Sorry, wag!
Go ahead, and Google keywords from the article and see if you can find any reference to it in the "Main Stream" media.
You will NEVER see stories like this in the mainstream media.
| Department: | Social Studies |
| Phone Number: | 215-862-5261 |
| Year Appointed: | 2004 |
| Email address: | Jason@solebury.org |
| Credentials: | BA, Yale University '95 |
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Administrative Offices 215.862.5261 |
Or the guilt and greif some women experience.
Or the physical damage done to the body of a woman.
The way I look at it is... The more Liberals that abort will mean the less Liberals we have in the future. Parents should teach their own kids that abortion is Murder. If parents take control, their children will do the right thing. This is a good argument for home schooling.
It is disgusting. However, this is a private school and presumably they aren't spending taxpayer dollars to promote this little field trip to the abortuary.
Caveat emptor.
Trips to New York City and Philadelphia, as well as to Great Adventure, take place during the year. The New Hope area is also full of many recreational opportunities; bicycling and hiking on the canal path and canoeing and tubing on the Delaware River are popular. Students often go into town or nearby malls to shop and to see movies. Boarding students who have parental permission may visit day students' homes on the weekends
http://www.solebury.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=11&pname=Home&purl=../index.cfm
Nothing about trips to the abortion mill.
While I don't agree with the school... it is a PRIVATE school right? What is all the talk about investigations? Unless some laws were broken or they took the kids without the school's permission, there isn't anything to investigate right?
If the parents of the kids gave their permission for the kids to go, that is their business. If it was a public school, that is a different matter.
If the parents of the kids gave their permission for the kids to go, that is their business. If it was a public school, that is a different matter. >>>
why would it be different if a parent from a public school student gave their permission for a field trip to an abortuary different than in a pivate school?
"But I’m also for people having a choice. I’m not for people not having a choice to do what they want.”
Crowley said it with fewer words: Do As Thou Will.
Save a tree. Use Easton.
Sometimes they're on the inside pages and sometimes theyr'e not. They're never on the front page.
Crowley was inspired too.
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