One Girl’s Courage: Kudos to her Parents

If you haven’t heard, there is a 13 year old girl in a public school in Colorado who wrote a poem about her pro-life stance. She was not permitted to read her poem aloud to the class (as the rest of the students did) because it was “too political.”

The article[i] whose link is below described the assignment: “The assignment asked students to write and present slam poetry about a world conflict they felt passionate about. The girl chose the topic of abortion and prepared a poem that referenced biblical verses, Dr. Seuss literature and statistics on abortions since Roe v. Wade.”

If you listen to the poem (video in link, 1 minute 26 seconds), you’ll hear how accurate her information is on the subject. It seems that she either really did her homework or her family is so passionate about the issue that they have taught her why the issue of abortion (murdering babies in their mother’s womb) is so important.

When I talk to abolitionists who go to abortion “clinics” to try to persuade mothers that there are other options or to offer tangible help or to share the Gospel with them, they tell me how many of the women coming to kill their babies claim to be Christians.

Yet, when the same abolitionists try to minister at the junior high or high school level, they get push back that these students are too young to understand or grasp the truths that the abolitionists are trying to share. At the same time the abolitionists are trying to say to the irate parent that the children need to be taught the consequences of pre-marital sex as well as those of having an abortion. Most women, despite what they say on social media, are not proud of killing their baby once it is done. They mourn and live with the guilt.

The focus of the articles and the feedback on social media about this young girl are pointing to the unfair treatment she received based on her topic or they compare hers to other poems that did get read even though they were political topics (anti-second amendment, mocking Jesus, and pro-LGBT).

What Christians may need to look at while it’s still in front of the world, is the understanding and the courage this 13 year old girl had because it is an important topic in her family – and therefore for her. She learned from listening and apparently her parents were not afraid to talk about the truth of what happens in an abortion to their daughter.

As Christian parents and grandparents, are we willing to present the realities of what an abortion does to a baby? Will we speak openly about the truth of the gift that sex is for the married couple while teaching them that it is how babies are made? (When I listen to the discussions that some of the Christians have with women as they are entering the abortion mill, these women sometimes act surprised that sex led to pregnancy!).

How young to teach will depend on the maturity of the child. The fact that the children need to understand what happens in an abortion before they are tempted by their desires, the world, and the devil to have sex, is undeniable. And, if possible, getting them out, or keeping them out, of the public schools would also be helpful.

[i] https://www.lifenews.com/2026/05/20/colorado-school-refuses-to-allow-student-to-read-her-pro-life-poem-in-class/