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Re: My son was told that Obama kills babies.
by kaiso

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".

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