{"id":1471349,"date":"2022-05-11T09:44:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471349"},"modified":"2022-05-11T09:44:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:44:51","slug":"high-school-students-stage-walkouts-over-potential-roe-reversal-loss-of-abortion-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-students-stage-walkouts-over-potential-roe-reversal-loss-of-abortion-access\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Students Stage Walkouts Over Potential Roe Reversal, Loss Of \u2018Abortion Access\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhigh-school-students-stage-walkouts-over-potential-roe-reversal-loss-of-abortion-access%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1471349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/abortion-protest.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>High school students across the country have started walkouts in protest that the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and return the power to make abortion laws back to the states.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In Virginia, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5dc.com\/news\/nearly-50-virginia-schools-held-walkouts-in-support-of-abortion-access\"><span>students<\/span><\/a><span> at 45 high schools walked out on Monday to protest the fact that abortion, which ends the life of an unborn child, would no longer be considered a constitutional right if <em>Roe<\/em> were to be overturned, as a leaked opinion draft by Justice Samuel Alito indicates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>High school junior Felix Hedberg and Generation Ratify Virginia policy director at Open High School said that young Virginians were not going to let Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and state Republicans make Virginia \u201ca commonwealth against abortion access.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s time to listen to youth. Virginia was the 38th state to ratify the ERA, shining the spotlight on Virginia in the movement for gender equality and reproductive justice,\u201d Hedberg claimed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students in Wisconsin also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/2022\/05\/09\/oregon-high-school-students-walk-out-suport-abortion-rights\/\"><span>protested<\/span><\/a><span> the potential <em>Roe<\/em> reversal claiming that their \u201crights\u201d were being threatened.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs people with uteruses and as young people we are already so afraid of people taking control of our bodies,\u201d said one sophomore at Oregon High School, in Oregon, Wisconsin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While some young people are seemingly upset about the outcome of the upcoming Supreme Court ruling, the news comes just months after the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C, which generally attracts thousands of young pro-lifers many of who hold signs declaring things like \u201cI am the pro-life generation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prominent pro-life group Students For Life\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/studentsforlife.org\/\"><span>says<\/span><\/a><span> it has trained 127,000 advocates for life since 2006 and focuses on starting pro-life groups at campuses across the country with the purpose of abolishing abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFor so long in the pro-life movement, everyone had a youth outreach division, but it was a secondary thing,\u201d Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins said back in 2018, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thecatholicspirit.com\/news\/local-news\/leading-pro-life-generation\/\"><span>according<\/span><\/a><span> to The Catholic Spirit. \u201cOur entire organization is focused on developing the pro-life generation because we realize these are the people being directly targeted by abortion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The student protests come as pro-abortion groups across the country take to the streets to protest Alito\u2019s leaked opinion draft. Protesters have shown up outside the homes of Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some of the backlash may be getting violent as several pro-life centers have been <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/pro-life-pregnancy-centers-are-under-attack\"><span>targeted<\/span><\/a><span> by vandals and arsonists across the country in states including Wisconsin and Maryland in recent days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cUnfortunately, this is not the first time our center has been vandalized. We were previously vandalized twice in 2014 in the same manner. These acts of vandalism are an attempt to intimidate our staff and volunteers; and to mislead our clients,\u201d Linda King, the director of a pregnancy care clinic in Frederick, Maryland, told The Daily Wire.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High school students across the country have started walkouts in protest that the Supreme Court may be poised to overturn Roe v. 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