{"id":3552,"date":"2011-06-24T12:07:35","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=3552"},"modified":"2011-06-24T12:07:35","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:07:35","slug":"school-lets-10-year-old-speak-out-against-abortion-%e2%80%94-to-an-empty-auditorium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/06\/school-lets-10-year-old-speak-out-against-abortion-%e2%80%94-to-an-empty-auditorium","title":{"rendered":"School lets 10-year-old speak out against abortion \u2014 to an empty auditorium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>Ranchero Elementary School allowed 10-year-old\u00a0Calise Jontz\u00a0to make her heart-felt speech against abortion.<\/p>\n<p>To an auditorium cleared of students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cDid you know that from the moment of conception, every distinctive characteristic of this new human being is programmed into this single initial cell?\u201d asked Calise Jontz, a fifth grader during the May 6 Annual Zone Public Speaking Competition\u00a0for grade schoolers in\u00a0Falklands, British Columbia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/on_the_front_lines_of_the_culture_wars\/2011\/06\/school-lets-10-year-old-speak-out-against-abortion-to-an-empty-auditorium.html\">CLICK HERE to read more <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ranchero Elementary School allowed 10-year-old\u00a0Calise Jontz\u00a0to make her heart-felt speech against abortion. 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