ABORTION “DESTROYS A HUMAN BEING”
by Sharon Rondeau
(Jan. 30, 2016) — At 6:17 p.m. EST, a Las Vegas high school student 16-year-old Angelique Clark, is speaking at the “It’s About the Child” conference covering what it has identified as the pitfalls and harm caused by the Common Core educational standards introduced several years ago into most states.
The Houston, TX conference began on at 9:00 a.m. on Friday and will continue through this evening, with a church service on Sunday morning for those wishing to attend.
Live-streaming of the event can still be accessed here for a nominal fee. Video of the two-day event will be available through February 14.
Clark has been a guest on a number of mainstream news channels speaking about her struggle to launch a pro-life club at her school during her sophomore year.
Before attending high school, she was home-schooled. She has authored a “pro-life” book and is an accomplished speaker.
Clark said that she obtained an application to start a club along with 25 signatures. She then waited “months” and heard nothing from school authorities, although a “gay-straight alliance” organization had reportedly been approved very quickly.
“I sat down with my adviser” in a meeting, Clark said, at which time she was told that “pro-choice people would feel left out” if her club were to launch.
“They were afraid of the issue,” she said, invoking the process of abortion, which she said “destroys a human being.”
Clark said that even if her club were deemed “controversial,” it should not have been prohibited under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. At 6:23, she said that it “didn’t make any sense” that she was informing “adults who were supposed to be charge” of the constitutional right to form any type of club as long as it followed school rules.
“Unfortunately, this happens across the United States…everyone says ‘no’ to pro-life clubs,” Clark told the audience.
A national pro-life group assisted Clark in pressing forward, in addition to the Thomas More Law Center.
Thomas More wrote to the school in a communique described by Clark as a “cease-and-desist” letter which she said the school ignored. The law firm then filed a lawsuit on her behalf against the school. “Four days later, we had a pro-life club,” Clark said.
She said that “breaking the law” in the U.S. “has consequences.” She has since reached out to other Las Vegas high schools, some of which have now organized pro-life clubs.
Clark denied that an anti-abortion stance amounts to a “war on women.”
She briefly mentioned Common Core, then at 6:35, concluded her comments and took a sole question from the audience.
A placard mounted on the front of the speakers’ lectern for the event reads “STOP FED ED.”
The evening session was hosted by blogger, radio host and author Jason Hoyt.