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And if there is a kid on Free Republic who is smart enough to navigate these pages and make any sense of it for longer than 3 minutes, then they are mature enough to face and cope with the reality of abortion -- and maybe they will grow up to hate the evil that it is.

Not a 10-year old who has more political and economic understanding than most adults (based on Nov '08 voting), but she is still ten and has yet to learn a thing about the birds and the bees. She cherishes life and who would want to force a child to begin losing their innocence and wonder of the world because of a stark, bloody image?

I permit her to read on FR because of her intelleigence, understanding between right and wrong, and solid conservative values. She can hold her own against most any liberal who crosses her path despite her age. I would rather she learn about politics from here than any other web site. The site is well moderated and foul language is minimal. She's about ready to begin posting on her own and FReepers have a lot of knowledge, history and experience from which she can learn. We need a generation of solid conservatives to put our nation back on its intended path. Would you put those images in front of your own children?

But IMHO spamming all of the Tiller threads with photos of aborted babies is beyond what is needed. The first dozen times should suffice, although I understand your and Jeff Head's intent I just believe it is not totally necessary . . .Remember, on this site, you are preaching to the choir, basically.

Psychology is my field, and unless your 10-year-old is very sheltered, she already knows about the birds and the bees. If she didn't learn it from you, she learned it from her peers. My recommendation -- you don't have to take it, of course -- is to sit down and have a talk with her about it. Girls are going into puberty starting around 10-years-old these days -- earlier and earlier (that's an empirical fact, not based on anecdotal evidence).

It won't be long before she has her first menstruation. She will be shocked by that experience unless she can anticipate it and understand what it means, which means some sex education, preferably from a parent. At that time she will be fertile. Depending on where she is getting her education, she is likely to be exposed to boys. Kids these days are experimenting with sexuality at earlier and earlier ages. That means risk of pregnancy, as early as 11 or 12. Even at 10 it is possible, but unlikely.

So, what better time than to teach her about the reality of abortion? If that is not a deterrant to premature sex, I don't know what is. No young woman ever wants to be in a position to decide between being a teen mother or doing THAT to her unborn child. The shocking reality of some pictures might upset your little girl in the short-term, but could prevent a lot of grief in the long time. Just my two cents.

I walk the talk. My 6-year-old has joined the March for Life in DC, and though he does not yet fully comprehend the reality, he knows that a baby grows in a mommy's tummy. And he knows abortion is the intentional killing of that baby. We did not need to teach him that this is wrong. He understood it intuitively and immediately. And, yes, he has seen the pictures during demonstrations, and while he is young compared to your child and less able to assimilate these images, he has coped with it just fine. He is much more disturbed by fictional characters from movies he has seen on posters, like Jason from Friday the 13th and Chucky which are advertised all over the place in full view of any child who cares to look.

There are thousands of lurkers here on FR who are not the "choir".

I support every manner in which we can educate others. I do not believe they can ever be truly educated without knowing the tuth and full extent about the ghastly genocide we face. Without a full awareness it is very easy for others to fall prey to the libral PC speak of "a woman's choice", and "pro-choice".

Those terms ar meant to elecit support from anyone. Who can be against free choice? Until you see first hand, in the harsh light of day, what they are actually talking about that choice doing...mutilating a living child.

I do not enjoy it, I do not revel in it, and I wish to God we did not live in a time where such horrors have been accepted by so many as common place, a "good" thing, and proteccted under the color of corrupt law. But we do livein such times and I believe sincerly that the people simply must see the reality of what this practice actually means and is.

Then there is no mor possibility for the left and liberals to frame it as "good".

All they can then do is tlak about how their sensibilities are offnded by such graphic picturs...which are pictures of nothing more than exactly what their belief system produces THOUSANDS of times per day.

Sorry for the graphic nature of it...I mourn ourcounty over it. My wife and I have raisd three daughters ourselves and two sons. We took them at early ages to march at abortion clinics...and they knew th score then. It pained my heart to have to educate them on the reality of what we face over this as a people and a nation. But it is the truth and we must face that harsh truth and hold it up for our society to see so that our society can develop the strong, firm, tough as steel will to put this monstrocity down.