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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.