 Anyone see the 14 Sep 2001 Dear Abby? Subscribe   
  From:  Bob Blaylock (Bob_Blaylock)   9/14/2001 1:25 pm  
To:  ALL   (1 of 4)  
 
  198.1  
 
  It's currently readable at this URL:

    http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/viewda.cfm?uc_full_date=20010913&uc_comic=da&uc_daction=X

  I refer to the first letter published and answered in this column on this day.

  It seems that sometimes, youngsters understand truths that grown up, wrapped in our politics, do not.  Abby doesn't get it, and the child's mother doesn't get it, but the child, not having yet been fully indoctrinated with the politically-correct bull**** that Abby now advises, understands the horrible truth that the adults refuse to face.



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  From:  P_Shilling   9/14/2001 2:26 pm  
To:  Bob Blaylock (Bob_Blaylock)   (2 of 4)  
 
  198.2 in reply to 198.1  
 
Before I start, I'm pro-life, by the way. =) 
The only problem I saw with this was that I'm sure the child's uncle didn't bother to mention that sometimes abortions are necessary for the health or life of the mother. A discount of all the facts involved upholds a child's initial belief that that is no death in the world and that abortion has no legitimate uses when, in fact, it does at times. The uncle was probably just trying to explain the situation the best he could to a young child not knowing what impact it would have. Telling a little kid that Gore "believes in killing babies" isn't something approiate to tell a child with no previous knowledge of abortion. I wouldn't be suprised, from the way the girl reacted, that her uncle also tied in her mother's views to Gore's beliefs. After all, if the only reason to vote for a person is their stance on abortion there are problems with both the presidential canadate and the voting public. 

Either way, the girl needs psychological counciling. I've seen similar things a million times in divorce cases where the parents try to pit a young child against one another. From my standpoint as a liscenced psychologist, a reaction as strong as disowning your mother at such a young age can only be done by brainwashing or extreme trauma. Young children are very suggestable and it appears in this case that the girl ate up her uncle's words. Telling this girl that abortion was killing puppies or kittens would have had the same effect. Beaten and molested children don't even disown their parents. We know scientifically that its possible to "brainwash" anyone under the age of about 12 with only one action or sentence. There is also probably more at work in the child's life then the letter conveyed. 

This wasn't a case of a child knowing the truth because they haven't been exposed to PC views yet. It was a case of a child being told how to think about something and the child responded accordingly knowing nothing about the subject to begin with. Children only know what we teach them. This is the same as how racism is passed on through generations.
 
  
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  From:  Bob Blaylock (Bob_Blaylock)   9/14/2001 5:58 pm  
To:  P_Shilling   (3 of 4)  
 
  198.3 in reply to 198.2  
 
P_SHILLING wrote:
Before I start, I'm pro-life, by the way. =)

The only problem I saw with this was that I'm sure the child's uncle didn't bother to mention that sometimes abortions are necessary for the health or life of the mother. A discount of all the facts involved upholds a child's initial belief that that is no death in the world and that abortion has no legitimate uses when, in fact, it does at times.
  If abortion is the killing of a human being (which would be, in my opinion, the only rational basis for being opposed to it's legality) then it is still the killing of a human being even if it is done under circumstances that are sufficiently drastic to justify it.

  I believe that God has endowed each of us with a conscience, and that we thus have a natural ability to discern good from evil.  Unfortunately, I believe we are also very susceptable to being corrupted by secular beliefs and agendas, to the degree that we can sometimes become oblivious to the still small voice of our conscience.

  Until such time as we become so corrupted, I believe that it would be obvious to any of us that abortion is, indeed, nothing less than the killing of an innocent human being.  The two women who constitute Dear Abby have become blinded by their political indoctrination to this simple and obvious truth.  So has the mother of this unfortunate child.  We do not know what words this child's uncle used to explain his position on the issue of abortion to his niece, but I do not think it would have been necessary for him to use such inflammatory terms as killing babies for the child to understand that that is what abortion is.

  OK, this is a fictional reference, but a very vivid depiction of what I am trying to say occurred in an episode of a TV series called Life Goes On.  A young woman, one of the regular characters of this show, was unmarried and facing an unwanted pregnancy.  She was discussing the situation with her brother, a young man with Down's Syndrome, who possessed a sort of a childlike innocence, rather like a younger version of Forrest Gump.  She was considering having an abortion, and described this possibility to him in very vague, politically-correct terms.  The brother understood immediately the terrible implications of what she was considering, and was horror-struck.  I guess you would have to have seen the episode.

  I guess what I am trying to say is that even if this child's uncle hadn't discussed abortion with her, if this child's mother  who clearly believes that abortion should be legal  were to tell the child about it, I think the child's reaction would not have been much different.  I think the child would still have naturally understood that what was being discussed is, indeed, the killing of little babies, and she would have been just as horrified that her mother could support such a thing.  Only with the dulling of this child's conscience could her reaction be otherwise.

  It's a terrible thing that this child has been so traumatized, and that her relationship with her mother has been so impaired.  But it is not a boneheaded uncle who is to blame for this; it is the fact that this child has become aware that she lives in a society which thinks that it is OK to kill preborn babies for the sake of convenience, and that her mother agrees with this view; and that this child's conscience is still suficently sharp for her to understand the horrific implications of this.



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   From:  David (DavidABrown)    9/17/2001 9:46 am  
To:  Bob Blaylock (Bob_Blaylock)   (4 of 4)  
 
  198.4 in reply to 198.3  
 
Bob,

It looks like the Dear Abby Article that you referenced Is getting alot of Attention.

Here is the post from "Pro-Life Infonet"

Dear Abbey Column Promotes Pro-Abortion Views

[Pro-Life Infonet Note:  The following "Dear Abbey" column appeared in
newspapers September 13th promoting the pro-abortion viewpoint. Please
send a polite letter in response to "Dear Abby" writers Pauline Phillips
and daughter Jeanne Phillips at Dear Abby, P.O. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL
61054-0447 or send an email via
http://www.uexpress.com/dearabby/dearabby_form.cfm]

DEAR ABBY: At our Halloween party last year, which included both parents
and children, my brother and I somewhat jokingly debated the two
presidential candidates. My brother was for Bush. I was for Gore. Sometime
during the evening, my then 11-year-old daughter asked me why her uncle
was for Bush and I was for Gore. I explained why I was for Gore and gave
her four or five reasons. She asked again why her uncle was for Bush.  I
told her to go ask him.

During the merriment of the evening, I forgot about the subject until we
were on the way home and my daughter asked me how I could think that
killing a little baby was OK. I was speechless! I asked her where she had
gotten such an idea. She said her uncle had told her that Gore thought it
was OK to kill babies, and if I was voting for him, so did I. I tried to
explain about a woman's right to choose -- and that I DO think a woman
should have that choice, but I was so shocked I hardly knew how to defend
myself.

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.

I'm at my wit's end. My daughter is now 12 and our closeness has been
destroyed. I found out her class made Mother's Day cards, but my daughter
never gave hers to me. There are no more hugs and kisses at bedtime --
just "good night."

What can I do? I love my daughter with all my heart. I'd give anything to
have her the way she was before. -- DESTROYED MOTHER IN DALLAS


DEAR DESTROYED MOTHER: Sit your daughter down and tell her that the
subject of a woman's right to choose is a controversial one, and that it
is OK if she disagrees with you about it. It's a topic about which
everyone has to make up her (or his) own mind. Her uncle thinks the way he
does, and you love him in spite of it.

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.

Tell her that as she grows older, you want her to examine her reasons for
feeling the way she does about this subject -- but you also want her to be
open to different points of view, because there are more than one, and
people have a right to their own opinions. It may not heal the breach your
brother has caused, but it's a beginning.

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.

--
Please encourage pro-life friends and family to sign up for the
Pro-Life Infonet. Anyone can subscribe by going to
http://www.roevwade.org/roeform.html

 





David A. Brown
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