Teachers Saving Children® Inc. of Ohio
Press Release
May 5, 1997
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May 5, 1997, Columbus, Ohio. The abortion debate surfaced once again as a divisive issue at the 1997 Ohio Education Association (OEA) Spring Representative Assembly (RA), which was held on May 2-3 at the Veterans Memorial building in Columbus. At the Saturday session pro-life teachers proposed an amendment that would add the words "from viability" to the existing OEA Resolution C-4 which opposes child abuse:
The pro-life educators aimed at including "viable children" -- those capable of surviving outside the womb -- into the population OEA previously resolved to protect against child abuse. Viability is commonly acknowledged as twenty-four weeks, though some babies have survived even earlier with advanced technology. The amendment particularly aimed at showing teachers' opposition to the controversial partial birth abortion as "The ultimate form of child abuse, abuse to the point of death," according to Judy Bruns of Coldwater, who made the motion. The proposed amendment was defeated by a moderate margin.
Pro-life OEA delegates also attempted to delete Resolution I-3 paragraph 2 which includes OEA's support for "reproductive freedom," a phrase that OEA leadership declined to define this year, but which they defined at a past (April 30, 1993) OEA assembly as "including the right to an abortion". The attempt to delete paragraph 2 of section I-3 was defeated, as were several other efforts to make the resolution more palatable to both sides of the abortion issue. "That the OEA is unwilling to admit their strong pro-abortion position as they did in 1993," said Miss Connie Bancroft, TSC Executive Director, "is a good indicator that they are losing ground."
Following the close of the 1997 OEA Spring Representative Assembly, both sides exchanged conversation and handshakes, but the promise of future debate remains over an issue that leaves educators unsettled.
Teachers Saving Children® Inc. of Ohio is an organization of pro-life teachers of Ohio and other concerned citizens committed to establishing among professional educators' organizations a respect for all human life from conception to natural death.
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