Watch: Cop Intervenes Amid Chaos as Courageous 13-Year-Old Defends Unborn Babies https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/06/Teen-girl.jpg It’s enough to have your opinions shouted down when you’re an adult. When you’re shouting down a 13-year-old at a town meeting because you find his or her defense of unborn babies triggering, that’s something entirely different. And that ugly spectacle, unfortunately, is what played out at a city council meeting Tuesday, June 4, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Addison Woosley, a young anti-abortion activist, was jeered incessantly during a speech in which she called on the city to ban abortion and be a “sanctuary city for the unborn,” according to the Raleigh News & Observer. “Abortion should be illegal because it’s murder,” she began. “The definition of murder is the killing of one human being by another.” https://youtu.be/UJHTNTA9ro8 via @YouTube “On ultrasounds, the baby tries to run away from the disturbing instruments that try to kill the baby,” she said. “The baby’s mouth opens wide in a scream when being killed. These babies are alive. They feel being killed. It hurts them and there is nothing they can do about it. There is no way around it. Abortion is murder.” This resulted in jeers such as “You’re a baby!” and “Oh, please, getting a child to do this is wrong!” It’s worth noting that these individuals are on the side of the aisle that takes young activists such as David Hogg or Greta Thunberg with the utmost of seriousness and proclaims them as the future of politics. I’m not sure if these particular individuals do, but consider the hue and cry that would occur if conservatives shouted them down this way. Things got particularly ugly when she noted the racial disparity in abortion numbers. “Are you choosing to be like the plantation worker flogging the little black child?” Woosley said. “Or are you going to protest even if it cost your life like Martin Luther King, Jr.?” “Do not speak for black people!” one woman was yelling. “Go save your own! You don’t speak for black people!” “Done! Done!” another yelled as Woosley sat down. “Inappropriate!” Eventually, a police officer had to intervene after one woman gave the middle finger to someone filming the audience’s reactions, also grabbing his phone. “Don’t you dare! Don’t you dare! Right here, pal!” she said as she gave him the one-finger salute. The video shows the officer intervening with the woman, who insisted he didn’t have the right to film. “If I go, he goes!” she said. As it turned out, she ended up going without the man behind the camera as the police officer told her to step outside. WARNING: The following video contains vulgar language that some viewers may find offensive. The confrontation begins at roughly 3:00: https://www.facebook.com/100014069468616/videos/630454417433535/ I understand people have strong opinions about those who aren’t adults expressing their views about what legal rights adults can have. That being said, Woosley’s speech was a moving and well-written one. If you want to bring up that she’s “a baby,” implying that she doesn’t fully understand the issue on which she speaks, that’s fine. You can do that — provided, of course, that you’re not shouting her down during a public forum at which she has every right to express her views. I previously brought up Hogg and Thunberg, two activists who I would posit have been allowed to hide behind their youth to silence their critics. I’ve criticized them nonetheless, because I don’t think they fully understand the issues they bellow on about — and I think the fact that the inchoate and unformed nature of their worldview has something to do with their immaturity. Now, would I go to one of their rallies and shout them down with this? No. That’s profoundly inappropriate. Furthermore, I would verbally oppose anyone who would do so, even though that person might agree with me. That’s called civility. It’s worth noting the only people I saw standing up for Woosley in this situation were pro-life activists. There was no one from the other side of the aisle willing to confront their own, even as they verbally abused and attacked a 13-year-old girl. The only voice of civility was Mayor Pro Tem Corey Branch, who specifically addressed the African-American pro-abortion activists who harassed Woosley after banging his gavel to stop the invective. “I need order in here,” he said, banging his gavel. “So, yes, I am a black man and yes, everyone who signs up has a right to speak. That is the rule of the land. I can’t come up here and say you can speak or you can’t speak.” But that’s the problem: These activists don’t believe that. They don’t want those who disagree with them to be able to air their opinions. That’s a sign of a desperate sickness in America — a sickness we desperately need to address. ( LINK BELOW ) https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/watch-cop-intervenes-amid-chaos-courageous-13-year-old-defends-unborn-babies/