Posted on 08/27/2019 6:42:10 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
The National Education Association approved a new "business item" expressing support for abortion access during its annual conference in Houston.
"[T]he NEA will include an assertion of our defense of a person's right to control their own body, especially for women, youth, and sexually marginalized people," the resolution states. "The NEA vigorously opposes all attacks on the right to choose and stands on the fundamental right to abortion under Roe v. Wade."
The NEA is the largest teachers' union in the U.S. with more than 3 million members. It collected nearly $400 million from American educators in 2018, according to federal labor filings. The union is also one of the most politically active in the country, spending $70 million on politics and lobbying in 2017 and 2018. Nearly all of the union's political action committee spending went to Democrats during the midterm cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
The resolution, known as New Business Item 56, takes direct aim at the Trump administration.
"The most misogynistic forces, under Trump, want to abolish the gains of the women's rights movement," the business item later states. "Women's leadership is essential for any successful egalitarian movement and therefore must be protected."
What does this have to do with education—reading, writing, and arithmetic?
To the tune of ‘Another Brick in the Wall’
They don’t want no kids to teach!
Hey, Teachers!! Leave them kids alone!
Talking themselves out of jobs with no more children.
Yep ,putting yourself out of work
The falsehood that a woman can control her body is one of their main confusions. The baby is not the womans body. It has different DNA. The pregnant woman is hosting a different, individual entity. Any discussion must accept that fact first.
‘Talking themselves out of jobs with no more children.’
there’s a subtle point being missed here; from what cohort of society do the most abortions, as a percentage of the cohort, occur...? read the Guttmacher Institute numbers, and the answer is non hispanic blacks, significantly so...the Union, acknowledging that black children, not uneducable in the least, but rather unwilling to be educable, are a painful thorn in its side, are merely cloaking its desire to rid itself of an insoluble problem by invoking social justice rhetoric...
The Libs are always complaining about this group or that that votes against their own financial “self-interests”. Well... Democrats... here’s an instance where YOU are doing the same!
Are you saying the NEA is racicist?!.
‘Are you saying the NEA is racicist?!.’
no, I’m saying it is racist...that aside, I’m simply noting that the Union views policy that it knows full well will be inflicted on a particular element of its business, and stands in solidarity with that policy, regardless of it innate detriment to that element...
I’d bet they wish retroactive birth control was available for some of the kids in class.
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