Re: My son was told that Obama kills babies.
by
kaiso
11/04/2008, 4:20 PM
Don't you understand that the subject is inappropriate for 5 year olds?
They can't possibly understand the issues - they don't know anything
about how embryos are made, much less anything about the process of
development they go through during gestation. Nor do they have a
concept of consciousness, the question of what makes us human, of the
philosophical arguments about what exactly endows us with which rights
and when, of the medical risks of pregnancy and medical ethics and
medical decision making, of the problems of single motherhood, of
abuse, of rape, of poverty, of drug abuse, of incest, of the stigma of
young motherhood, of peer pressure, of bad decisions. They can't know
how common early pregnancy loss is. They don't know about the painful
decisions faced by people who find out about fatal genetic defects in
their fetus. They don't know that you're not even required to put your own health at risk, even in the most minor fashion, in order to save a fully grown adult's life, even your own child's, so
they can't understand that outlawing abortion is actually endowing the fetus with MORE rights than adults...
You say "baby killer", they think of *picking up a newborn
baby and killing it*. That's not the whole story.
Yes, it's a sick f*** who tells a 5 year old that "Barack Obama kills
babies".