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February 18, 2009
12-year-old Steals Day With Pro-life Speech
12-year-old steals day with pro-life speech
Teachers threaten disqualification, but girl chooses to speak against abortion
Despite facing threats of disqualification, a 12-year-old girl took first place in a speech contest when she eloquently argued for the rights of unborn children – after an offended judge quit.
"What if I told you that right now, someone was choosing if you were going to live or die?" the seventh-grader begins in a video recording of her speech on YouTube. "What if I told you that this choice wasn't based on what you could or couldn't do, what you'd done in the past or what you would do in the future? And what if I told you, you could do nothing about it?"
The girl, a student at a Toronto school identified only as "Lia," continued:
"Fellow students and teachers, thousands of children are right now in that very situation. Someone is choosing without even knowing them whether they are going to live or die.
"That someone is their mother. And that choice is abortion."
But what made the 12-year-old choose to speak about abortion?
"It was really a family thing," her mother explained on the blog Moral Outcry. "I saw Lou Engle speak at a conference several years ago. I came back to my family with the Life Bands, and we all wore them, made our covenant, and prayed the prayer for abortion to end. … We were invited to participate in a 'Life Tape Siege.' Once my kids heard of this invitation, they all agreed: 'We have to do that!' Since then, Lia's passion for seeing abortion end has continued."
Despite Lia's enthusiasm for her topic, her teacher "strongly encouraged" her to select a different one for her class presentation or she would be considered ineligible for an upcoming speech contest.
"Several teachers discouraged her from picking the topic of abortion; she was told it was 'too big,' 'too mature' and 'too controversial,'" her mother wrote. "She was also told that if she went ahead with that topic, she would not be allowed to continue on in the speech competition."
Lia's mother continued, "Initially, I tried helping her find other topics to speak on, but, in the end, she was adamant. She just felt she wanted to continue with the topic of abortion. So she forfeited her chance to compete in order to speak on something she was passionate about."
Lia's teacher was so impressed by the speech that she allowed her student to advance as the winner. Lia presented her speech to judges in front of her entire school on Feb. 10.
The school principal and teachers called Lia's presentation the "obvious winner" – but the judges suddenly disqualified her the following day "because of the topic and her position on abortion," her mother said.
Lia's father later revealed that the judges had a "big disagreement." One was offended by the speech and voluntarily stepped down while the others reversed their earlier decision – declaring her the winner.
Now Lia plans to take her message of life to a regional speech competition, and more than 130,000 visitors have viewed her presentation online.
"Why do we think that just because a fetus can't talk or do what we do, it isn't a human being yet?" She asks in the video. "Some babies are born after only five months. Is this baby not human?
"We would never say that. Yet abortions are performed on 5-month-old fetuses all the time. Or do we only call them humans if they're wanted?"
She continues, "No, fetuses are definitely humans – knit together in their mother's womb by their wonderful Creator who knows them all by name."
Wild Thing's comment........
“...and a little child shall lead them”.
How times have changed, when I was 12 the word abortion was not in the news, no protests about it pro or con. Being that I was adopted as a baby when I was told about it I was 4 years old, and it was presented as something special and yet even then no mention of the word abortion.
This little girl is adorable and smart. She knew what she wanted to speak about, discussed it with her parents and did her speech.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
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Posted by Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 05:42 AM
Comments
If the 'Cafeteria Catholic' Biden & Pelosi types had their 51,000,000 abortion ways 2,000 years ago, there would never have been a Nativity nor Christmas!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at February 18, 2009 09:20 AM
Seems to me I read that the Pope has scolded Pelosi over her stand on abortion. In otherwards, the Pope bitch slapped the bitch.
Posted by: cuchieddie at February 18, 2009 04:39 PM
Darth, your right, they would love to get rid of that.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 06:59 PM
cuchieddie, he sure did and several oh what are they called Bishops, they also told her off big time and Biden too. I bet they would do the same to Obama if he was Catholic. I wonder if she is gonig to Rome to kiss up to the Pope or something, to try and gain favor. I doubt it will work but who knows.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 18, 2009 07:01 PM
She gave a great speech, and some judge was offended ? Why she didn't even describe Partial Birth abortion.
What about the Left Reverand Wright, the phony apostate from Chicago, who is the white Wanna be Catholic preacher. He as much as endorses abortion why hasn't this putz been excommunicated. But he flies under the churches radar and only takes money from Obama.
Posted by: Mark at February 18, 2009 07:24 PM
