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Pro-Life Teen Denied Honor by Ohio House Speaker
- Feb 10, 2010 at 2:49 PM
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Shelby County, Ohio, pro-life teen Elisabeth Trisler is being denied a routine legislative honor by pro-abortion House Speaker Armond Budish, apparently because Budish objects to Trisler's pro-life values. Budish will not allow Trisler on the House floor to accept a resolution authored by Rep. John Adams which honors Trisler as the National Right to Life Oratory Contest winner. See LifeSite News.
These types of honorary resolutions are routinely presented at the start of Ohio House legislative sessions to constituents who have won academic contests or athletic championships. Trisler won the National Right to Life contest in June, 2009, in Charlotte, North Carolina. State Rep. John Adams then worked to schedule Trisler's proclamation on the House floor, and the presentation was scheduled for Wednesday, February 3, 2010.
However, on January 29th, the House Clerk informed Adam's office the presentation would not take place because the Speaker "had a problem with the subject matter." The clerk then advised Adams' staff to take up the matter with Speaker Budish.
"Surely Speaker Budish can put aside his partisanship for 10 minutes to honor the accomplishments of a talented and optimistic teenage girl," said Ohio Right to Life Executive Director Mike Gonidakis. "Perhaps his real message to Ohio's teens is that excelling in public speaking isn't worth being honored if their views are different than his."
State Rep. John Adams called the Speaker's denial "an outrage." The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Ohio has even criticized the
move, saying the refusal of Budish to allow Trisler on the House floor
amounted to "teaching young people that the answer is to silence those
who disagree with us."
Comments:
First off, no such thing as being "pro-abortion". Secondly, I wonder if you would have been just as outraged if an anti-equal rights Speaker would refuse to give an award to a teen who wrote a winning National Gay Right to Get Married essay...
Oh my gosh, that saying is so worn out. YES there is such a thing as pro-abortion. Whether you refuse to face up to it or not is not our problem. It is what it is. I can say I don't believe the grass is green but guess what? It's still green. Just because you refuse to own it doesn't make it any less true.
AMEN Mama0f3griz!!! So right!!!
pro-abortion is nothing more than a hot button lowlife tactic to slander those who are not pro-life. Shall pro-choicers go around calling pro-life anti woman? pro-fetus? it makes no SENSE to use these stupid name calling tactics and quite frankly OP that is below you. you are more intelligent than name calling
It's not name calling, it's the truth. You are merely hiding behind words to hide the fact that you support abortion. Why not just say it outright? Are you afraid of it or something? Or ashamed to admit that's what you really support? That's dishonest and lying is a pretty low life tactic. I'm honest about what I support and don't support. I am anti-abortion and proud to say so. You are merely ashamed to admit what you really support and that's sad.
If you are going to use the term "pro-abortion", then I can feel free to use the term "anti-choice", because that is exactly what you are.
*yawn* These lame insults are so boring. You don't get the choice whether to kill another human being or not. Murder is murder.
anti-choice is just a stupid thing to say, because we are Pro-Life, Pro-Choice, but we choose LIFE, so if you don't choose life what are you choosing and what would you call it. Pro-lifers/anti-abortion choose life, so there is our choice, so to say anti-choice is just stupid.
Why not just stand up for what you believe in and say what it is. If you are so Pro-choice, then say exactly what you are choosing and stand up for what you believe in and say it for what it really is. If you are not choosing life, then you are choosing death and the only thing that can cause death of a baby is an abortion.
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no such thing as pro-abortion
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