Two activists from the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform took a place at the edge of the Armstrong High School property, said a prayer, and propped themselves behind large photos of aborted fetuses this afternoon after a similar action at Thomas Jefferson High School on Tuesday.
School security and administrative personnel engaged the activists, as students bustled by seemingly entirely more concerned with just not being in school any longer today.
A post on the public Thomas Jefferson High School Facebook group indicates that the school system was given prior notice that the activists would be in place, though it is unclear if this was communicated to parents or students.
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Shouldn’t they be protesting FOR wider availability of contraceptives, then..?
WHAT? Why on earth are they there?
It would be interesting to see the reaction from Henrico or Chesterfield if they tried this at Godwin or James River. This is “freedom of speech” at its worst. More racist undertone than the Confederate Flag “heritage not hate” crowd…..disturbing.
Hashtag—- things you don’t see at a white school. Take your shame campaign on the road. You are doing no good here.
Frank, thanks for that drama queen rant. You’ve made my day. CHEERS!
This is ignorance on so many levels.
I really don’t understand what they thought this would accomplish, though I suppose we are talking about it…
Why not hand out condoms and educational materials?
@8 totally agreed, and better yet why not have the health dept. or other city depts. talking about high teen preg. rates among minority teens. So sad.
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What was the CDC report just the other day about all the kids that have fetal alcohol syndrome. These fine protester ladies should be working on the root cause which is drunk sex, low self esteem, role models, and contraception. Box that up and it could be presented to white schools too. #wasteofenergy
I don’t know that is was these specific ladies, but they have done this in Chesterfield County at predominately white schools.
Don’t have to agree with them but certainly agree that is their right to peacefully/legally express their opinions!
You can question their judgement about expressing their opinions at a school however.
The school supposedly had advance warning. I seriously doubt that those two sign carriers have children at that school. Why weren’t they trespassed? They had no valid reason to be on school property.
They moved across the street when asked to by school security officers.
Why not help these kids instead of using scare tactics? Be an activist in regards to sex education for these kids. Let them know the ways to prevent these pregnancies from happening, support clinics in neighborhoods where the kids can go to get educated about sex and obtain birth control, volunteer with a group that mentors kids. Then you wouldn’t have to stand on street corners trying to scare kids into having babies they aren’t prepared to raise.
I’m just amazed these were women. Usually it’s guys carrying around the doctored pictures.
Twenty to thirty years ago, these images would have been traumatic. Nowadays, I see more gruesome images on video games. They’d probably due better by educating the students, rather than trying to shock them.