{"id":559607,"date":"2021-06-10T15:21:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=559607"},"modified":"2021-06-10T15:21:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:21:58","slug":"schoolmate-posts-rebuttal-to-media-darling-who-promoted-abortion-at-graduation-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schoolmate-posts-rebuttal-to-media-darling-who-promoted-abortion-at-graduation-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Schoolmate Posts Rebuttal To Media Darling Who Promoted Abortion At Graduation Ceremony\u00a0"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fschoolmate-posts-rebuttal-to-media-darling-who-promoted-abortion-at-graduation-ceremony%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=559607&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:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-157685255.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Texas high school valedictorian Paxton Smith used her graduation speech to promote abortion and lament the \u201cwar\u201d on \u201cwomen\u2019s bodies\u201d \u2014 and naturally became an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jun\/05\/paxton-smith-abortion-ban-speech-texas-valedictorian\">international<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/us\/2021\/06\/07\/paxton-smith-texas-valedictorian-speach-heartbeat-abortion-sot-amanpour-vpx.cnn\">media<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/06\/03\/1002831545\/high-school-valedictorian-swaps-speech-to-speak-out-against-texas-new-abortion-l\">darling<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though she\u2019s sure to get far less media attention than Smith, a former schoolmate is firing back, advocating for the unborn in a rebuttal piece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/schoolmate-valedictorian-paxton-smith-war-right-life\/\">published<\/a> at LiveAction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_7UhW9 fKFbl yUEEX KV-D4 fDxYl \">Ilona Bistrian, a 2020 graduate who formerly attended Lake Highlands High School, took issue with Paxton\u2019s speech, particularly her statement denouncing \u201chow dehumanizing it is, to have the autonomy over your own body taken from you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is interesting because at first glance I fully agree with this statement,\u201d Bistrian wrote. \u201cBut on closer examination, when discovering that this statement is arguing in favor of one of the worst crimes and atrocities being committed upon mothers and their children, I was appalled!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn essence, her statement is true. There is nothing more dehumanizing than to have your personhood be stripped away from you and have your body mercilessly ripped apart while you are still alive, with no voice and no way to defend yourself. There is nothing more gut-wrenching than advocating for the exploitation of women\u2019s bodies, the rape of their womb, and the profit that is produced from it,\u201d the recent graduate continued. \u201cHave we really allowed ourselves to become so blind? How can we tolerate the obliteration of the most vulnerable? How can we encourage the manipulation of the female mind?\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B5_YoM6nCDv\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"13\" readability=\"-8.2405063291139\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bistrian also took issue with Paxton\u2019s assertion that her hopes and dreams would be crushed if she were to have an unplanned pregnancy and then be barred from killing the baby via abortion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say that one must have an abortion to be able to accomplish their dreams is not only a slap in the face to the millions of women who <i>have <\/i>worked hard to overcome their obstacles as a mother, but it is degrading to women as a whole,\u201d Bistrian rebuffed the valedictorian.<\/p>\n<p>For Paxton to focus on pregnancy-by-rape to promote abortion, Bistrian wrote, is a \u201cstrawman\u201d argument that still does not invalidate the life an unborn child:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p><em>Moreover, to hide behind the strawman of the rape argument is demeaning to those who have been conceived through rape. Does the circumstance of conception determine human worth now? Are children who could not control the manner of how they were brought into existence subhuman and inferior to those who were conceived conventionally? Are we to teach young women who have gone through this terrible trauma that they cannot succeed in life if they choose to keep their child? Are we going to assume that abortion is the only solution, and be ignorant of adoption and the dozens of couples in line for every one baby?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In one sense, Bistrian said, Paxton is \u201cright.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere <em>is<\/em> a war on our bodies \u2014 our bodies, precious and strong vessels that were given the power to produce life,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThere is nothing more beautiful than to bring a new human into the world. There is nothing more empowering than to raise and influence the next generation of history makers. And that ability is being warred on, in an attempt to degrade it to nothing, to tear it down to the status of a disease. There is a war on our human rights. Or more specifically, the right to life. <i>Life <\/i>\u2013 the first, foundational right from where all rights stem from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf our inherent, inalienable right is taken away, then no other right exists,\u201d she emphasized. \u201cWe can no longer be silent. We can no longer be complicit in this crime against humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in full support of\u00a0protecting the most vulnerable,\u201d Bistrian\u00a0closed her post. \u201cI am in full support of the Texas Heartbeat bill, and any future law that is passed to protect the human in the womb. Because at the end of the day, we are all human. And by virtue of being human, we are <i>all <\/i>entitled \u2014 born or preborn \u2014 to dignity, respect, and to <i>life<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full post, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/schoolmate-valedictorian-paxton-smith-war-right-life\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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