Posted on 07/18/2008 10:50:31 AM PDT by bs9021
NEA Family Feud
by: Bethany Stotts, July 18, 2008
It’s that time again. The National Education Association teacher’s union met in Washington, D.C. over July 4th week for its annual convention and to endorse Barack Obama for president. Obama has drawn criticism from pro-life groups for his strongly pro-choice stance, having declared in 2007 that “the first thing I’d do as President is sign the Freedom of Choice Act,” which would overturn state restrictions on abortion.
Following in this pro-choice vein, the NEA convention also once again upheld the original language of Resolution I-15, which “supports family planning, including the right to reproductive freedom.” The resolution continues,
“The Association urges the government to give high priority to making available all methods of family planning to women and men unable to take advantage of private facilities...also urges the implementation of community-operated, school-based family planning clinics that will provide intensive counseling by trained personnel.”
An amendment which would have added the words “with no position on abortion” to the statement underwent a 15-minute debate on the floor last year, according to Sissy Jochmann, Chair of the NEA Conservative Educators’ Caucus. “That’s progress,” she said at a Family Research Council press conference. The amendment failed again this year.
Other speakers roundly criticized the 3.2 million teacher’s union for having a stance on the issue at all.
“Not only is it inappropriate for a union to have a position on abortion, but it is especially inappropriate for a teaching union, a group designed to protect the interest of teachers in collective bargaining and professional development,” said FRC Executive Vice President Chuck Donovan. “Nonetheless all we are asking, and all the members of the NEA who are asking here today, is that the union represent teachers [who] have a variety of opinions,” he said...
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
Things like this are why I dropped out of the NEA about 5 years into my 31 year teaching career (retired in 1999)
Public education ping
Don’t these idiots realize that abortion has killed tens of millions of customers (potential brainwashing victims)?
Fewer children=fewer schools=fewer teachers=less clout for their pathetic union.
Fine by me. This does nothing but make them look ridiculous.
The NEA is morally bankrupt. It is an anachronism, a dying gasping cadaver...on the deathbed of Pubic education.
Someone please drive a stake into its amoral heart.
Everyone except for the two Feminazi's is anti abortion.
NAMBLA= association for men who want to have sex with boys.
NEA= association for women who want to have sex with boys.
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