{"id":180760,"date":"2018-03-22T11:46:31","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T15:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=180760"},"modified":"2018-03-22T17:29:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T21:29:26","slug":"students-planning-abortion-walkout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/students-planning-abortion-walkout\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-life students plan abortion protest after school shooting walkout"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Students at Rocklin High School<\/a> (RHS) in Rocklin, CA, a suburb of Sacramento, are planning a walkout to protest abortion. This walkout comes on the heels of last week’s 17-minute walkout in many public schools protesting guns. The pro-life protest, students say, originated with a teacher’s innocent question.<\/p>\n

CBS reports<\/a> that RHS AP history teacher, Julianne Benzel was placed on administrative leave after questioning what would happen if a walkout occurred for a different issue. Abortion was one that came to her mind. The story reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Benzel was placed on paid administrative leave when she asked students to consider whether there\u2019s a double standard in the national school walkout.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like a conversation about when is too much? And are we going allow this on the other side?\u201d said Julianne Benzel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Benzel’s intent of opening up discussion on the history and organization of protests, an appropriate topic for history class, led to complaints,<\/a> and Benzel was placed on leave. That leave only lasted two days, and she was welcomed back to her classes, but one student took the question seriously and said he<\/a> \u201cwould like to see if there really is a double standard and what will come of that.” Brandon Gillespie, the protest’s student leader said the point of the protest is “[t]o honor all the lives of aborted babies pretty much. All the millions of aborted babies every year.”<\/p>\n