National Education Association president calls abortion fundamental freedom’ at annual teachers gathering

The head of the largest teachers union in the United States called abortion a “fundamental freedom” and vowed to defend the “right to choose” after warning of what she called a “radicalized Supreme Court” at an annual meeting of the National Education Association.

More than 6,000 delegates gathered both in-person and virtually at the 2022 NEA Representative Assembly in Chicago, which concluded Wednesday, where several measures were ultimately passed on a range of hot-button topics, perhaps none more heated than the issue of what the union called “reproductive rights” following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

President Becky Pringle delivered a provocative keynote address at the meeting on Sunday in which she pledged to use the NEA’s influence on issues ranging from abortion and prayer in schools to LGBT rights and school vouchers.

In her address, Pringle invoked the words of Marxist activist Angela Davis — who was once on the FBI’s “10 most wanted” list for her involvement in the murder of a judge — in calling for teachers across the nation to “share that view professor Davis holds dear: Whether it is a mind, a heart, a school, a community, or our world, transformation is always possible.”… (Excerpt from The Christian Post)