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Major Media Ignores Nationwide, Student-led Pro-life Walkout
The major media fell over themselves to assure glowing coverage of supposedly student-led gun-control walkout rallies in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, but when thousands of students across America staged a pro-life walkout April 11 to protest the nation’s liberal abortion laws that have taken the lives of over 50 million pre-born babies over the past 45 years, reporters and major media commentators yawned and turned away.
The pro-life walkout was in part a response to the punishment a high-school teacher in Rocklin, California (near Sacramento), experienced for questioning why her school district embraced a student gun-control walkout, but frowned on a similar student walkout protesting legalized abortion. The discipline Rocklin High School teacher Julianne Benzel received prompted Rocklin High junior Brandon Gillespie to organize a school-wide pro-life protest, and that one school and 40 or so student protesters grew to thousands of students in schools across the nation staging a peaceful, organized walkout to draw attention to the generations of babies who have been aborted since the Supreme Court’s infamous 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
Regarding the Rocklin High School pro-life walkout, the Sacramento Bee reported April 11 that both Julianne Benzel and Brandon Gillespie said participants were not treated the same as those involved in the gun-control walkout, “who were given tents to shelter them from the rain and a public address system. Teachers also were directed not to discipline students who participated in the March 14 protest, Benzel said. She said similar directives were not given to teachers about Tuesday’s protest.”
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