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I went inside a Colombian youth camp run by anti-abortion activists
At a camp mixing extreme sports and extreme rhetoric, I saw how theyre training teenagers to join their fight against reproductive rights. Español
Camille Mijola
22 January 2019
Since 2017, theyve run youth camps that mix extreme sports with extreme anti-choice rhetoric, training teenagers on how to campaign against womens reproductive rights.
They represent the new face of an emboldened anti-choice movement in Colombia and the backlash to the governments 2006 decision to relax its restrictions on abortion. They are also part of the ola celeste, the sky-blue wave of anti-abortion activism that has grown across Latin America after kicking off in Argentina in August.
I attended one of their two-day camps in September, along with about 30 other young people, between 15 and 22 years old, in a mountainous region called La Mesa, two hours outside of Bogotá. First, we met the organisers all dressed in matching blue sweaters at a church at 6.30am, to join an early Sunday mass before setting off.
Surrounded by evergreen hills, the camp was in an extreme sports park that looked like the perfect setting for school trips or adventure days -- with obstacle courses, climbing and rappelling sites. Though our schedule included hour-long talks on abortion, referred to in one of these as a symptom of the globalised culture of death.
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https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/inside-colombian-youth-camp-anti-abortion-activists/
katmondoo
(6,454 posts)child would make women suffer and pay for the sin of having sex. That puts the guilt on the women not on the uncontrolled desires of men. To say they are for life is a cover for making women suffer and for men to feel they are really just good guys protecting life. Should they (men) have sexual desires it is the women's fault because they do not believe in life only pleasure therefore the women must pay the price.
Judi Lynn
(160,219 posts)They stayed in a me-centered view of life, just as they were when they were actually babies.
They got older, and even less aware of other people.
They are too ignorant to realize how twisted and wrong they are.
You are defintely right. People who have grown successfully into mature human beings have been able to see them for what they are from the first.
What a shame there are still so many of them making life hell for everyone else who doesn't butt into, and obsess over the private lives of other people.
It takes ignorance and hatred a long time to die away.
Thank you, katmondoo.