{"id":251,"date":"2009-02-16T20:47:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T04:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/?p=251"},"modified":"2010-08-05T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T01:27:35","slug":"7th-grader-explain-dangers-of-abortion-to-growing-youtube-audience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/7th-grader-explain-dangers-of-abortion-to-growing-youtube-audience","title":{"rendered":"7th Grader Explains Dangers of Abortion to Growing YouTube Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-252\" title=\"12 Year Old Speaker\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-11-150x150.png\" alt=\"Pro Life 12-Year-Old\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro Life 12-Year-Old<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnewsagency.com\/new.php?n=15101\">Catholic News Agency<\/a> reported today on an un-named twelve-year-old girl who is beginning to gain attention from her class speech on the topic of abortion.  Her delivery is clear, confident and effective.  She summarizes the Catholic position on abortion in a way that few politicians can appreciate. Covering most of the pro-life bases, she discusses when life begins, and ends her speech by quoting <em>Horton Hears a Who<\/em>. I&#8217;m not sure where she goes to school, but I hope she got an &#8220;A.&#8221;  Take a look for yourself:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wOR1wUqvJS4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1?rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Tip of the hat to Jean at <a href=\"http:\/\/catholicfire.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/12-year-old-speaks-out-on-abortion.html\">Catholic Fire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Catholic News Agency reported today on an un-named twelve-year-old girl who is beginning to gain attention from her class speech on the topic of abortion. Her delivery is clear, confident and effective. She summarizes the Catholic position on abortion in a way that few politicians can appreciate. Covering most of the pro-life bases, she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/7th-grader-explain-dangers-of-abortion-to-growing-youtube-audience\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;7th Grader Explains Dangers of Abortion to Growing YouTube Audience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[39,24],"tags":[46,47,26],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature","category-spirituality","tag-abortion","tag-pro-life","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prZ8V-43","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1075,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/what-is-the-future-of-catholicism","url_meta":{"origin":251,"position":0},"title":"What Is the Future of Catholicism?","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"July 22, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The Patheos website has a very interesting series of articles by prominent Catholic thinkers on the topic \"Future of Catholicism.\" As Catholic educators, it's important to have a broad sense of what's happening in the Church, and these articles offer intelligent insights into where we might be heading, where we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Featured","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/category\/feature"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/600px-Saint_Peters_Square_from_the_dome_v2-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1717,"url":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/csc\/bring-catholic-tv-news-to-your-classroom","url_meta":{"origin":251,"position":1},"title":"Bring Catholic TV News to Your Classroom","author":"Deacon Nick","date":"September 20, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"You may be familiar with classroom news podcasts like CNN's Student News, but what you might not realize is that the Archdiocese of Boston produces a similar show each week for Catholics called Newsbreak. 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