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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just explained it to my DD in a straight forward way. "When a female gets pregnant she has three options: she can have what will turn into a baby and keep it, have what will turn into a baby and give it up for adoption or have an abortion which is a medical procedure where they take out the cells that are called a fetus, before they turn into a baby. Then the woman isn't pregnant anymore and a baby isn't born. Some people think that's wrong, but I think they're wrong. Nobody should have a baby if they're not prepared to." [/quote]

I guess that would work... Unless she saw the graphic images and saw that the "cells that are called a fetus" are identical to a human baby. The truth is that the reason why those graphic images are so disturbing is that they show what really happens, which is that a baby gets killed. And this is coming from someone who is on the fence about where I stand on the abortion debate. Those images make me think I'm against abortion, but when I think about abortion without those images I lean pro-choice. That's why I can say I'm still undecided. [/quote]

I forgot to say to op that I don't think I'd be able to explain abortion to an 8 year old. I have a 9 year old and it's never come up yet. I'd probably say something like let's look the word up in the dictionary and see what we can find out. Then I'd be very careful in how far I allowed the conversation to go after that.[/quote]

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