Ranchero Elementary School allowed 10-year-old Calise Jontz to make her heart-felt speech against abortion.

To an auditorium cleared of students.

“Did you know that from the moment of conception, every distinctive characteristic of this new human being is programmed into this single initial cell?” asked Calise Jontz, a fifth grader during the May 6 Annual Zone Public Speaking Competition for grade schoolers in Falklands, British Columbia.

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