[madprof98]

No matter how much our revulsion at terrorism from abroad draws us together, there are real and deep divisions among us here, and we are going to have to keep addressing those too.

[RogueIsland]

Explain that you are not in favor of killing babies

Yes, she is.

[Saundra Duffy]

Now, let's see what we can learn from this story. Al Gore is a divider. Amen. For victory & freedom!!!

[NovemberCharlie]

And finally, I urge you to talk to your daughter's uncle about this entire situation. He could help a great deal by reinforcing what you have said -- and he should. He was out of line from the beginning for having given your daughter his inflammatory answer to her question.

Excuse me? She told her daughter to ask him! People generally have strong feelings about their politics; what else could he have done?

[FormerLib]

Yeah, I saw this one two. The uncle did the right thing, and I'll bet the writer did her best to make his explanation sound as bad as possible in a vain attempt to support her immoral position.

Gee Mom, too bad your little girl feels distant from you because of your position that it is OK for women to choose to kill their own babies! I can only guess that someone else gave her some moral values.

[BibChr]

Oh, I have about 427 responses to this heartwarming, earnest little missal. I'll settle for two, centering around this:

Explain that you are not in favor of killing babies, but that you feel it is important for a woman to have the right to choose [i.e. to have their babies butchered].

1. I think Abby is overestimating the average 12yo's capacity for BS.
2. Try these parallels:
   • Explain that you are not in favor of child molesting, but that you feel it is important for a molestor to have the right to choose.
   • Explain that you are not in favor of rape, but that you feel it is important for a rapist to have the right to choose.
   • Explain that you are not in favor of blowing up huge buildings filled with innocent people, but that you feel it is important for an insane, ankle-biting putrescent single-helix pre-limbic mutoid terrorist to have the right to choose.

Work for you? Great.

Dan

[ICU812]

Evil is a learned behavior. Out of the mouth of babes....

[CubicleGuy]

Explain that you are not in favor of killing babies, but that you feel it is important for a woman to have the right to choose.

Dear Abby: let's not deal in incomplete sentences, shall we? Let's fix what you had to say here so that we know what we're talking about:

"Explain that you are not in favor of killing babies, but that you feel it is important for a woman to have the right to choose whether or not she can kill her baby."

Just so long as we're all clear on what that choice is about.

Of course, all women throughout history have always had, and will always have, that choice. What the argument is about is whether or not we can let lawyers and lawmakers set things up in such a way that there are no legal consequences when making a choice to kill a baby, and thereby attempt to convince ourselves that we should feel no pangs of conscience when the choice to kill a baby is made.

But then, that's probably why you prefer to deal with incomplete sentences is these matters: so we don't have to face up to what the choice is about.

[Landru]

"It has been nearly a year now. Ever since that night my daughter has been very distant toward me. I have tried to talk to her about it several times, but she refuses to discuss it."

What's to talk about, Lady.
You brought the kid up to be a thinking person.
The kid now realizes, in spite of your convoluted reasoning, you're essentially a murderer.
She *apparently* disapproves.

Questions?

[AgThorn]

Explain that you are not in favor of killing babies, but that you feel it is important for a woman to have the right to choose. Some women's lives have been saved because they were legally empowered to make that choice. It wasn't always the case.

Dear Abby -

You are "all wet" ... First off, you are twisting the facts worst than this kid's uncle. i.e. Being "pro-life" has never put the baby's life before the mothers, it is a sad twist of history, womens issues and the whole discussion of abortion for you to use THIS as your foundation arguement for this mother to go talk to her daughter about.

Second - Abortion is murder, and you know it Abby. What does "saving the mothers life" have to do with 99% of the abortions out there? Are you just not following the actual statistics on partial birth abortion alone, where "mothers health" is often sighted as the "excuse" but all doctors that have testified so far have admited that they consider "depression" as one of these "mothers health" issues? Or just the request to NOT go through with it? And how do you rationalize that Ms Abby? I see, you don't.

How about the ease for our children to get RU486 pills without even a prescription? (as encouraged by ads on MTV)

How about the harvesting of fetal body parts for medical use? Gee you left that out as well ...

How about ..... ah forget it.

Dear Abby - you are just showing that you too are as misguided as Gore.

As we look at all the shocking television that we are seeing with the carnage going on in NY and DC, I have to reflect at how the so called "pro-choice" people complain about the pictures of aborted fetus's. The revulsion should be the same. You can't hide what we have done to the unborn, and act shocked at what others do to us. that's hypocricy.

AgThorn & Lily4Jesus
Los Angeles

If you haven't already done so, please add your signature
to the petition for the unborn (and ask others to do likewise)
These little ones need our voice to speak out for them.
God Bless you!
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b7c063605a8.htm

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Abby's answer is priceless. So much babbling and dancing. Trying to disguise immorality as morality.

You can't do it, Abby Dear,

It doesn't withstand the light of day.

[albee]

"Dear Abby, Dear Abby,
My fountain pen leaks,
My wife hollers at me,
And my kids are all freaks
Any side I get up on,
Is the wrong side of bed,
If it weren't so expensive,
I'd wish I were dead"!

Signed

"Unhappy"

John Prine Song
"Dear Abby"

[FlyVet]

Poor kid, at 11 yrs old hasn't lost her innocence. A few more years of indoctrination, she would have had a heart of stone and wouldn't have believed her uncle. Now, maybe she always will.

[Old Professer]

The whole abortion rights issue is really a women's power issue; ever since 1973 women have had the ultimate and singular power of life or death. The fact that they used men to wrest this power testifies to the weakness of America.

Women are ruthless and filled with guile, a grudge perceived is carried to the grave.

Sir Francis Bacon shunned them as he would the plague for he recognized that they would prevent him from attaining his goal of the acquisition of all knowledge; he even predicted that they would one day rule all of society.

[HalfIrish]

I never read that dreadful column. Thanks for posting this, I would have missed a great save otherwise.

[DallasDeb]

Dear Destroyed: How did you manage to raise a daughter with higher morals than your own? Take my advice, let your daughter be the mom. Signed: Abby's Ghost Writer

[HamiltonJay]

Dear Mother.... Your daughter understands what you attempt to ignore. With your line of reasoning, she may not be here today!

You raised a daughter with morals than you have... Kudos.