{"id":20798,"date":"2012-09-07T07:22:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T11:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=20798"},"modified":"2013-04-04T00:44:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T04:44:48","slug":"eleven-year-old-girl-stands-her-ground-against-insulting-pro-choicers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/eleven-year-old-girl-stands-her-ground-against-insulting-pro-choicers\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven-year-old girl stands her ground against insulting pro-choicers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>As I type these words, the Democratic National Convention is going on in my hometown of Charlotte, NC. At this moment, our President Obama is probably settling in at his hotel a mere ten minutes from where I sit now. The DNC, bringing Obama, Cecile Richards, and others to my doorstep, has shocked me into the reality of how close to home the battle strikes. An incident which occurred a couple days ago has struck even nearer to me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20800\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20800\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20800 \" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zoe-Griffin-400x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zoe-Griffin-400x200.jpg 400w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/zoe-Griffin-400x200-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20800\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zoe Griffin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>One of my sister\u2019s friends, 11-year-old Zoe Griffin, was prayerfully standing with her younger sisters in peaceful protest on the streets of uptown Charlotte when several pro-choice women approached her and began screaming in her face, demeaning her and her cause. I know from personal experience that this happens to adults, the elderly, and teenagers, but someone needs to be really angry and fearful to cuss out a little girl.<\/p>\n<p>Well, this little girl has guts, let me tell you, because her eleven years proved more than a match for her opponents. With great ardor and surprising eloquence, she stood her ground and gave them a piece of her mind. I\u2019m going to give you the account in her own words \u2013 and remember, this girl is only in sixth grade. (Account taken from Stand True\u2019s blog, a pro-life organization her mother runs.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, I\u2019m Zoe. Something happened Friday night that a friend wanted me to blog about. I don\u2019t have Facebook or Twitter or anything like that so I\u2019m borrowing my mom\u2019s page for now.<\/p>\n<p>What happened was a pro-life rally. We had showed up when only 4 people were there. I guess we were supposed to get there early. As more and more people came, a car arrived. A woman came out and opened the trunk. There were 3,300 carnations in the back of that car. We started to unload and unwrap the flowers. Lily, Bella, and I started to write pro-life statements with chalk on the sidewalks when some pro-abortionists came. They were holding signs and chanting: \u201cA baby\u2019s not a baby till it comes out, that\u2019s what birthdays are all about!\u201d They were blowing whistles and jumping around acting like 5-year-old children. I was so sad that these people were so blinded I started crying. Then we started laying down the flowers all across the sidewalk. When we finished, the line of carnations was probably a mile long. A pro-life woman let me hold a crucifix that she had. I started clutching it close to my heart. My knees were shaking, so were my hands.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-abortionists turned to us and started pointing at different people, saying, \u201cYou\u2019re a person! You\u2019re a person! Fetuses are not!\u201d Then the woman saw me crying and said,\u201d You are making this girl cry with your bull____\u201d. I couldn\u2019t stand any more of those lies. They pushed it too far. In the highest-pitched voice I have ever spoken in, I screamed, \u201cTHEY ARE NOT THE ONES MAKING ME CRY! YOU ARE! WITH YOUR DARK HEARTS, YOUR DARK MINDS TURNED AGAINST GOD!\u201d My mom ran over to me, put her hand on my shoulder, and calmed me down. Then she went up to them and said, \u201cHOW DARE YOU ATTACK A CHILD LIKE THAT!\u201d While she was yelling, pro-lifers came over to me to calm me down. My whole body was shaking. Our friend, Mrs. McKinney, took me, Jack, and Bella to a CVS that was nearby. We got water and chips and went back. I sat down on a bench when a man from the Charlotte Observer came over to me and started interviewing me. Once he was done, a man came over and gave us ice cream. While I was eating, the pro-abortionists left. Then we started to clean up.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home I felt sorry that I yelled at those people. I told my mom, and she said, \u201cDo you know why you feel that way? It\u2019s because you have a heart. You have a conscience, and you know what\u2019s right and what\u2019s wrong. Those people attacked you like that because they don\u2019t have a heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I will never, ever forget what happened last night. I had a dream that night that they all converted to pro-life activists. I hope that dream becomes a reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>May God send us more pro-life activists in the making like Zoe Griffin. She\u2019s a true example of a fun-loving, caring, seemingly ordinary girl who knows how to stand true to God\u2019s calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standing true to God&#8217;s calling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":20801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Eleven-year-old girl stands her ground against insulting pro-choicers - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/eleven-year-old-girl-stands-her-ground-against-insulting-pro-choicers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Eleven-year-old girl stands her ground against insulting pro-choicers - 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