Pro-life educators have sent a message to the National Education Association (NEA) at its annual session, which met recently at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
Bob Pawson, who heads Pro-Life Educators of America, tells OneNewsNow that pro-life teachers, with parents and teachers, sought to draw attention to the NEA leadership's pro-abortion activism and policies.
"Of course, as usual, we're not asking the union to become pro-life," Pawson says. "We're just saying get out of the abortion issue, and be truly disengaged and neutral on it."
Pro-lifers from Georgia Right to Life and the Center for Bio-Ethical Reform participated in pickets asking delegates to repeal provisions that promote abortion.
Pawson says the group received thumbs-up by some delegates and obscene gestures from others, but were not deterred from their objective.
"We joined the union for representation at the collective bargaining table - not to be misrepresented by a bunch of left-wingers who have taken over our union on social, moral and political issues," Pawson says.
"These issues are important to Americans and to teachers, but they should not be important to us as a collective bargaining agency," he adds.
Pawson, who has taught in New Jersey since 1980, finds it ironic that the organization promotes the killing of future students.
Contact: Charlie Butts, Source: OneNewsNow.com
