Pro-life "boot camp" offered for teen 'survivors of abortion holocaust'

[Bluebear]

Pro-Life Boot Camp Equips Teens and Young Adults for Activism

To: National Desk

Contact: Arianna Grumbine, Public Relations Coordinator for Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, 909-744-7283, [email protected]

LOS ANGELES, May 26 /Christian Newswire/ -- Soon young people from across the nation will travel to Southern California for what is best described as the Pro-Life Boot Camp. Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust, a pro-life youth organization, will hold their 9th annual Leadership Training Camp, featured in such magazines as Jane and Teen People. This high-energy, ten day camp beginning June 26th is for high school and college age young people who want to be trained to be effective and courageous in their pro-life efforts.

“I have always felt that abortion is wrong,” says 14-year-old Angelique Guaraneri, who will be attending the camp for the second time this year. “But until I attended the camp last year, I didn’t feel like I could articulate why.”

“Survivors has helped me to see that my age is not an obstacle to my voice being heard on critical issues such as abortion. Instead I feel that my age is an asset. Who better to speak about abortion than someone who had a 1 in 3 chance of being a victim themselves? Because of Survivors Camp, I now feel confident enough to speak to anyone about this controversial issue. Whether it’s to a professor at Harvard or a passerby on the street, the truth about abortion remains the same and I am ready to share it with them.”

The Survivors utilize the first few days of camp to equip themselves with the tools they will need for effective activism. Students complete basic and advanced training from nationally recognized pro-life advocates, engaging in challenging seminars and skill-building exercises.

The extensive training includes learning the basics of the scientific issues behind the question of when life begins, how to speak to women who find themselves in a crisis pregnancy, using the media to get out your message, planning and executing a successful activist event, and knowing your rights in the public square.

James Conrad, a Survivor veteran and current camp leader, speaks about its unique purpose, “Survivors camp is not your average nature hike, water balloon games, hotdogs and fireside songs camp experience. The purpose is to take 50 young people and give them the training and tools needed to go back to their communities and take an active stand against the worst evil of our day, the slaughter of innocent children through abortion.”

The second part of the camp is the hands-on portion of the learning experience. With the encouragement of experienced advisors, the Survivors are placed in leadership positions at camp activism events. All Survivors are given opportunities to practice their skills, whether as event leader or media spokesperson. The goal is to prepare the Survivors for their own events and activities back at home.

“We believe that it is not enough to know that abortion is wrong, but we are called to expose the horrific truth to the world,” said Cheryl Conrad, Director of Survivors. “The Survivors ministry was founded to educate and equip young people who have a heart for the pre-born and are willing to be used by God to defend those unjustly sentenced to death.”

http://www.earnedmedia.org/sur0526.htm

[Taverner]

1. Hmmmm wouldn't it be nice if an earthquake happened in Socal that day

And just affected this "boot camp"

Nature correcting itself

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. No, they are kids who have been severely manipulated.. they need

an intervention, but that's a bit extreme.

[Taverner]

10. Problem is there is no talking to these folks

They're already ruined. No hope left. Wasted souls.

But again, I might be bitter...

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Some, maybe.. but some others are just insecure or easily swayed or

desperate to be a part of something "meaningful".

And you have to admit, the "believe or go to Hell" sales technique is a verrry effective one. Worked on me for years and years.

[JuniperLea]

18. Yep!

That's how gangs get their people too... a need to belong.

I was afraid of hell for a long time too. Now I figure, if it exists, all the coolest people will be there anyway and heaven will be overrun with haters.

I know a lot of good Christians who actually walk the talk, but they are a precious few. This group is teaching hate every bit as much as Bloods and Crips.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. I am not wild about abortion, but since i believe in reincarnation it

doesn't freak me out like it does the 'once arounders".

[Matariki]

3. damn. i hope they ALL get pregnant at summer camp

doing what teens do naturally...

'cause i'm sure they're all against birth control as well.

[progressivebydesign]

7. and some will... count on it. n/t

[Warpy]

5. Those poor children must be dying for slapped faces.

Seriously, this "boot camp for survivors" is the worst type of psychic abuse visited on children, convincing them they have barely survived being killed by wicked abortionists and taking all that teenage free floating rage and angst and directing it everywhere but where it should go: at the fundies who set this horror show of brainwashing and abuse up.

Too bad CPS is already so overworked. If a place ever needed to be shut down on grounds of child abuse, it's this one.

[noonwitch]

16. There are absolutely no grounds for CPS to intervene

Kids don't go to camp without parental consent. Unless the children are being abused or neglected, there's nothing that can be done, nor should be done. Any attempt by CPS (the government!) would be rightfully interpreted by the court as infringement on the rights of the participants to freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

I think this is extreme, too, but parents have the right to send their kids there. The participants have the right to teach that abortion is wrong. They have as much of a right to teach political activism about their cause as you do about the war in Iraq. I'm sure no antiwar protestors are teaching their kids how to protest (sarcasm).

[progressivebydesign]

6. a 14 year old sez "I've ALWAYS felt abortion was wrong"...

I don't know that just gave me a chuckle. The all wise-all-knowing 14 year old, the word "ALWAYS" just kills me. She also thought that Santa ALWAYS existed. Man.. those people who put those things together know that 14 is a great age to indoctrinate, they are sooo easily led.

[tjwash]

8. Damn...Why the fuck to all the religious cults have come to So-Cal?

Why can't they end up in places like Lewiston Idaho, or Laramie Wyoming? Noooooooo...they have to end up setting up there little operation in my little part of the world.

Maybe the winters are a little too harsh for them there.

:shrug:

[xxqqqzme]

14. it's here because Southwest

doesn't fly 2 backwaters. They can get more cheap seats kids indoctrinated.

My sister's youngest daughter falls in this group - if her homelife had been stable, if my sister had actually been a parent, it would have been different. My neice went looking for approval, the christo-facsist found her (drugs found her son). My sister thinks it is wonderful - I've often wondered how she justifies the 3 abortions she had, 2 her daughter...if indeed she ever told her.

When I went 2 camp, I was taught archery - wonder if these 'campers' have any weapons sessions?

[tjwash]

17. We are still trying to live the "Heavens Gate" thing down here.

nt

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Young people ' willing to be used by God '. I have my doubts that it's

God who is using them. Are they 'Survivors' because they were born? The young lady is correct in that she is someone who had a 1 in 3 chance .....only 32.5% of all fertilized human eggs ever result in birth....and that's not counting abortions. So, her god gives each of us a 1 in 3 chance.

[underpants]

11. Folks the right is very well funded and very well organized

this is a glaring example.

[ck4829]

13. My God

"The purpose is to take 50 young people and give them the training and tools needed to go back to their communities and take an active stand against the worst evil of our day, the slaughter of innocent children through abortion."

What about the deaths of innocent children through poverty related problems?

Disease?

War?

[robbibaba]

15. Most abortions are spontaneous miscarriages

and I'm guessing a huge proportion of those are now caused by chemical contamination. If there were only some way of making this connection for the 'lifers' maybe they'd get behind meaningful regulation of the chemical industry and stop supporting republican slimeballs who have deregulated every toxic producer with a bribe in hand.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

19. Yeah, I figure this sort of thing would happen.

For the right-wingers, they're entire world is collapsing around them. They don't know what to do, they're all mixed up.

Teens? Holocaust? Abortion? Bootcamps? Sure! Let's have boot camps for teen survivors of the abortion holocaust.

Guns? Prescription meds for the elderly? Video games? Flat tax? Sure, let's levy a flat tax so we can afford to ban video games that old people play where they rob pharmacies.

Expect more lunacy in the coming months.

[Caution]

20. I bet that'll be popular and fun,

[SIMPLYB1980]

21. What do the first ladies think about freedom of choice?

[patrice]

22. Hopefully some real Pro-Life youth leaders will go to this and

carefully lead them to the realization that Pro-Life is Anti-War.

[wisteria]

23. Oh boy, warping young minds and filling them with inaccurate

information and hatred. Great camp.

[KamaAina]

24. The anti's' use of the term "holocaust" is patently offensive

to survivors of the actual Holocaust. Then again, the very term "pro-life" is offensive to the 80% of Americans who are thus characterized as "pro-death".

Then again, years ago, I once saw the head local anti in a van that was circling around looking for parking at a David Dukkke rally where several of us were counterdemonstrating. Something tells me he's not terribly concerned about the feelings of Holocaust survivors...

[Johonny]

25. So a camp designed to use children

Wow that's so pro-life

“The Survivors ministry was founded to educate and equip young people who have a heart for the pre-born and are willing to be used by God to defend those unjustly sentenced to death.”

[uppityperson]

26. Are these kids who "survived" an abortion?

A survivor of the holocaust is someone who was in one of the camps. Thusly, wouldn't you need to have had your parents have tried to abort you but somehow it didn't work to be an abortion survivor?


From their website comes this amazing statistic "If you were born after 1972, we challenge you to consider yourself a Survivor of the Abortion Holocaust. 1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America!"

[Spike from MN]

30. I was wondering the same thing.

Thanks for being brave enough to go to the website. "1/3 of your generation has been killed by abortion in America!" Well obviously, since these kids "survived," we need to be more selective on exactly which 1/3 doesn't get through. Can they test a fetus for Fundie nut-bag tendencies and perhaps do a little better screening so we won't have this same problem in future generations?

[Bridget Burke]

27. Their convictions will last until the first missed period.

For the girls--their own. For the boys--their girlfriends'.

[MadHound]

28. Well, it looks like we're starting to get our own Hitler Youth Camps

Right here in the US. Just taking another page out of the Nazi playbook, get to them while their young so they're willing to do whatever the fascists want when there a bit older. Sad, very sad.

And frankly, if I was a woman who was contemplating an abortion the last person I would want to talk to would be some brainwashed, virginal, wet behind the ears fourteen year old whose idea of living in the real world is up against the mall.

[Bluebear]

32. "Tomorrow belongs to me!" nt

[jpak]

29. and this one time...at Survivor's Camp....

:evilgrin:

[in_cog_ni_to]

31. Wow. Now a Zygote is a CHILD. Interesting.

:eyes:

[tjwash]

33. Pro life "boot-camp??" Send their asses to Marine Corp Boot-camp.

Hey, shrubs meat-grinder needs soldiers, and these obnoxious little twits are the perfect cannon fodder. Plus it sounds like that's what half their asses need.

It's a win-win situation. :thumbsup: