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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]

Did your daughter want to know more information about what happens to the cells that are called a fetus? Because I could easily see a kid that's curious enough to ask about abortion being curious about what's the difference between the cells and the baby and then wanting to know where the cells go. And then probably wanting to know what the cells look like before they turn into a baby, and then wanting to know [/i]when[i] the cells go from being cells to turning into a baby etc. There would be a lot of questions I'd think...[/quote]

The truth is that DD is 12.5 now and we have had multiple talks about family planning and abortions and protesters, etc. I don't believe in having just ONE talk about things like that, or about sex, or puberty or domestic abuse. It's a multi-year on-going discussion that spans almost their entire childhood. I am not at all afraid to let DD know that if that clump of cells grew where it was that it would turn from a fetus into a baby. I am very pro-choice, almost to the point of being pro-abortion. So I'm not at all afraid for DD to know about abortions, and part of that is knowing that some people are very, very against them. But we talk a lot about the value of life, how to protest issues in fair ways, etc. [/quote]

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