National pro-life advocates Abby Johnson and Nick Sandmann will address the 2020 Republican National Convention next week to highlight the stakes of the November election for the preborn if former Vice President Joe Biden replaces Donald Trump as president of the United States.
The Trump campaign confirmed the news to Breitbart Monday, explaining that Johnson, Sandmann, and other speakers were selected to “illustrate the potentially disastrous consequences of Democrat governance,” such as the dangers of left-wing “cancel culture.”
Johnson is a former Planned Parenthood abortion facility director who converted to the pro-life cause in 2009, and has since exposed numerous details about the inner workings of the abortion industry. She now leads And Then There Were None, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people leave the abortion industry. Her story was turned into a successful motion picture last year, Unplanned.
Sandmann was a student at Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School who attended the 2019 March for Life in Washington DC, and found himself at the heart of a national firestorm when the press erupted with claims that a video showed him and his classmates harassing Native American activist Nathan Phillips outside the Lincoln Memorial. But additional extended video and firsthand accounts soon revealed that Phillips was the one who waded into the group waiting for its bus and decided to beat a drum inches from Sandmann’s face, while the boys had merely performed school cheers in hopes of drowning out racist taunts from members of the Black Hebrew Israelites fringe group.
Johnson is likely to discuss both President Trump’s pro-life record as opposed to the pro-abortion platform of Vice President Biden, and her own experiences with cancel culture’s reaction to her film. Last year, Unplanned writer and director Chuck Konzelman testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that the film found its official Twitter account temporarily suspended without explanation, and that even after being restored found its followers removed and other users temporarily unable to follow it.
“No one believes in the First Amendment more than the president, and the president will take action to ensure that Big Tech does not stifle free speech, and that the rights of all Americans to speak, tweet, and post will be protected,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany declared in May. “It’s not just bias aimed at President Trump and his employees; it’s also aimed at everyday Americans. It is aimed at the movie Unplanned, as Twitter suspended their accounts and came up with an excuse in the aftermath. Another example is that liberals are allowed to incite violence against the Covington kids, who were in the end proven right; their video was taken out of context. Yet these individuals were let or allowed by Twitter to incite violence….”
The above comes from an August 17 story on LifeSiteNews.
Nick Sandman is hardly a national prolife advocate. He took a day off school to go on a field trip and ended up winning the lawsuit lottery.
Kevin, did you ever take a day off school to go on a field trip to the March for Life?
Most high schoolers would prefer a day off or field trip other than outside in January being harassed by adults, both after and before a very long bus ride.
Many young people took a stand for life, including my children. What Nick and others did is commendable.
The fact that he stood up to a media lying about him seems to bother you. That the media may fear losing a lawsuit and may, as a result, choose to not blatantly promote falsehoods is a win for all of us.
K.T,
Nick Sandmann attended March for Life. Harassed and taunted by a vile black hate group and Indian deadbeats trading on their ancestry, Sandmann appeared the only adult in the room. The MSM maintained their lie throughout, though they had film from the get-go.
Nick was smeared in the press left and right, by pols and celebs, and by his own school and bishop, who threatened expulsion. He and his family received death threats. His suit came only after the press declined to apologize/retract. Through it all he remained gracious and respectful.
He was all of 16. How old are you, sir?
So far the left hasn’t cancelled money, and Sandmann got a boatload of it thanks to settlements with CNN and The Washington Post. More cash to come thanks to a vicious media trashing a high school kid who had the restraint to hold his tongue when confronted with a fanatical activist. As for Abby Johnson, the success of her book and movie underscores the appreciation of truth surrounding the dirty deeds of the abortion industry.
Well played GOP, and by the way, both are Catholic!
You are right on target.
Appreciate your comment.
Yes, it seems Sandman was the only adult among the bunch, and they even “cursed” him for doing it with a smile and not a foul mouth.
That young man deserves every dollar he received from dishonest main stream media that defamed him. He also deserves an apology from his bishop!
And happily, Nick Sandmann has turned 18 and will be able to vote this November. Some day his red MAGA hat will be displayed in the Donald J. Trump Presidential Museum.