Being a "Survivor" isn't a game for young pro-life
activists.
Fifty young pro-life activists are getting training
and practical application at a two-week Survivors camp
in California.
At the camp, however, you won't find any basket
weaving or horseback riding. Fourteen-year-old Melissa
Lindsley explained Week 1: "During the first week, we
have several different workshops on media and on
pro-life apologetics and the legal background (of
abortion) and anything that has to do with abortion
activism."
Fifteen-year-old Sauna Layman said Week 2 activities
are even more "in-your-face."
"We go to conferences and protest there," Layman
said. "And we do media and other protests at beaches and
at clinics."
A target this year was a California Abortion and
Reproductive Rights Action League (CARAL) luncheon
promoting the so-called "emergency contraception" (EC)
pill. Sixteen-year-old Arianna Grumbine, who went in
undercover, said the pro-abortion sponsors lied when
they denied the pill was a form of abortion.
"Most of them were actually there to find out how
they could promote emergency contraception and to ...
support the luncheon," Grumbine said. "It was hardly at
all a learning experience for anybody there."
They also obtained CARAL's list of pharmacies where
emergency contraception pills can be obtained.
"You have to get a prescription to get birth control
at a pharmacy, but for EC there's no prescription
needed, no parental consent and no age limit," Layman
said.
Grumbine added: "We basically told all the pharmacies
that we went to, 'If you are on CARAL's list, you are on
our list.' "
This was the fifth year for the camp.
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