A Womb With a View (Pro-Life Cartoon Strip in Syndication)

National Catholic Register ^ | December 7-13, 2003 | TIM DRAKE

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP - LIFE!

[fishbabe]

please ping me

[Salvation]

These are wonderful. Thanks for the ping!

Pro-life is all about educating the uneducated masses. And this is one way to do it.

[T Minus Four]

When are we going to see this strip in the NY Times?

As if!

[cgk]

Pro-life ping...

[ChemistCat]

I'm just curious...at what age do y'all think children are ready to discuss abortion? I know it's an issue that should be familiar before puberty, and a firm moral foundation on this topic among others provided, but when?

I know the liberals are trying to get their position across as early as possible.

[CyberAnt]

When I was very young, my mom took every opportunity to show my sisters and I how a baby grows inside the mother. It was easy for her .. she had a younger sister who was having children. I knew from as early as 3-4 years, that it was a BABY and not just a blob.

Also .. I remember attending county fairs and seeing displays of the progression of a baby in the womb. This only afforded my mom another opportunity to explain about babies.

[jwalsh07]

Absoltuely awesome. Go Umbert!

[ChemistCat]

That's not exactly what I meant. It's part of the process, but actually discussing abortion is a step beyond that. I don't mind reproduction being understood at a very very early age, but that it's legal to murder babies is something a 5 year old shouldn't have to deal with...I think. Maybe I'm wrong.

[nickcarraway]

Yes, it's not something pleasant to bring up, but unfortunately sometimes young children are exposed to it. Jean Garton, was preparing slides late one night for her lecture at medical school the next day, she did not realize her five year old had entered the kitchen until the child said, ``Who broke the baby?'' The child has seen a slide of an aborted baby. Because of that, she became a pro life activist and wrote ther book: Who Broke the Baby? What the Abortion Slogans Really Mean.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I have four children and I've talked to all of them about abortion at a very young age; I'm guessing around age five. It has come up in normal conversation with each of them. I don't give a lot of detail; they just know that some people kill their babies before they're born and that's it wrong to do that. I know that some people will think it's too young, but my kids haven't been traumatized by it. My oldest is now 17 and my youngest is 7.

I think you need to base the decision to tell them about abortion on your own children's personalities. Children who are very sensitive might not handle it well. I don't happen to have extremely sensitive children :-).

[ChemistCat]

When I was in high school, I took Anatomy & Physiology.

The instructor passed around a couple of slides he had of aborted human embryos, cautioning us to please not talk about it--it wasn't legal to have them. (I don't know if that's true or not.)

We all looked at them.

Nope, they didn't look human. At the time I didn't have an opinion on it one way or the other, and I guess nobody else did either, because we passed them around and then almost forgot about it. It's the kind of thing that you don't completely forget! I became mildly pro-abortion through the years, my views on the matter never challenged by any reality that forced me to make a firm decision, until I became religious, and until the Democrats made the issue so prominent. I'd have to say that the pro-abortion people did more to make me anti-abortion than anything else, though as I've gotten older, wiser, and better educated on the matter, my views have deepened. I believe that science and religion both back the view that we are human from conception.

They were only about 3 week embryos, still quite tiny, not yet differentiated from the embryos of other eukaryotes. It might have been from a baby chick or a baby pig, for all we knew--but he said they were from a human.

I do not know how the abortion was done to leave the baby so intact, so that a slide might be made showing clearly the neural tube, eyespots, and so on.

Now I know I held part of a murdered person in my hands. I didn't know. If I had known...what would I have done, there? Did the teacher know? Was any student repulsed by this, horrified by this--did even one student in that class know that we held a murdered baby? How did the teacher (I don't even remember if the teacher was male or female) feel about those slides? I couldn't own a thing like that.

Most people who are wrong on this just don't know.

[skr]

Thanks for the ping--great idea!

[CyberAnt]

Well .. I agree abortion is something a 5 yr old should not have to deal with. However, if the truth about what a baby looks like in the womb is given early enough, the lies about it not being a baby will have a harder time taking root.

[Dionysius]

They do; it's called an editorial page.