PHOTO: 9 year old 'pro-life advocate' explains fetal development

[Bluebear]

She must be working on her "Little Warrior Debs" merit badges. Next up: her "Why God Made Adam And Eve, And Not Steve" science fair diorama.

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Pro-life advocate Claire Miller, 9, holds a plastic model of a fetus while describing a child's development during a 'March For Life/Life Chain' rally to protest against abortion on the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision in Los Angeles, California January 22, 2006.

[sakabatou]

1. Another one drinks the kool-aid

I feel sorry for her warped mind...

[Initech]

51. Hey, the Bible repeatedly says "the Lord is my shephard"

So wouldnt that imply sheep-like behavior? :rofl:

[Yollam]

2. Why would you ridicule a child...

...for reciting the talking points its parents have brainwashed into it?

For that matter, I don't really care for people on the left using their kids as props for protests either. Let them grow up to an age when they're entitled to an opinion before having them spout it on people.

Sorry, but this is a lovely girl who's been conditioned to say stupid things. Why not leave her be?

[KitchenWitch]

3. Thank you

My sentiments exactly.

I hate people who exploit children to advance their own agendas.

[DanCa]

5. I agree. Let's let kids stay kids as long as t hey can.

A child shouldn't be a partisan issue exposed to partisan view points.

[hang a left]

19. Well my children are exposed to partisan view points.

Fortunately they are the right(meaning correct) ways in which to think and act. However, we have not discussed pro or anti-choice issues. I didn't even tell them about the birds and bees until they were 10. Some things you don't discuss with children because they are too young to reason or understand. Talking about "murdering" babies to a 9 year old girl and to teach her that there are "libruls" out there that do this is just irrational and extremely bad parenting.


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The girl should be playing with baby dolls not baby fetuses.

[AtomicKitten]

20. and this isn't a kid's issue. n/t

[Bluebear]

7. I wouldn't ridicule the child if she had a chance to see the words.

I sincerely doubt she reads Democratic Underground. And if she does, sorry, lovely girl.

On the other hand, since she now has national exposure via the news media thanks to her participating in an anti-Roe v Wade demonstration, you think she just should be praised?

[Yollam]

8. I think she should be ignored.

The day I let a 9-year old tell me what to think will be a cold day in hell.

[Bluebear]

9. Fortunately you and I are male.

I hope this child, though, and her protesting peers never are faced with an ethical dilemma once they are actually able to reproduce, not just pontificate on the subject. Maybe by that time Bush will have his wished-for "birthing center" ("Magdeleine Laundry") homes up and running anyhow.

[DanCa]

11. It's the end run isn't ? Get them while they're young.

Hmm maybe that's why the fundies want intelligent design in schools so bad.

[FreedomAngel82]

29. Bingo

[Yollam]

14. Our snarking here will have no effect on that...

...of course to be fair, it will likely not hurt the girl's feelings, either.

At any rate, it just seems a bit petty to make fun of little kids. I'm sure there are plenty of pro-choice women posting here who were raised in anti-choice households. Give people some credit for sometimes learning to think for themselves as they grow up.

[Bluebear]

46. Yeah, that's me, petty.

By the way, no one was "making fun" of her. I think it's sad that she is being brainwashed so young.

[FreedomAngel82]

28. So why not educate them instead?

Why only one side of the debate? "Saving the babies" isn't always a plus.

[jody]

35. "why not educate them"? Like teaching ID so they hear both sides? n/t

[DanCa]

4. You know ...... I just dont know what to say

Honestly..not a clue...

[raysr]

6. You know, who gives a fuck?

The poster is entitled to their opinion. Who gives a shit about a fundie kid, not me.

[DanCa]

10. yep posters are entitled to have thier opinions.

Blue bear rocks.....

[KitchenWitch]

12. I agree with you!

I love Bluebear!

[DanCa]

13. Bluebear and Springsteen 08 :D

[FreedomAngel82]

30. Who will grow up to be a fundie parent possibly....

who will still be trying to get rid of Roe v Wade and never know why they're doing it except to "save the babies" and never knowing the damage they're doing to women.

[mzteris]

45. or grows up to be a girl

who gets PG out of wedlock while she's only 15 - 'cause the only other thing her parents taught her about sex was "just say no".

:(

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[Stockholm]

23. Please let her not be terrorized as a rape victim..

She is just a kid for pete´s sake and can´t help that her parents are evil bastards using her to spread the gospel of hate.

In the end it is a problem a small degree of education will solve!

[derby378]

25. No fucking way

I'm sorry - I think I see where you're coming from, but that's still in very poor taste.

[FreedomAngel82]

31. That's too mean

Just call for education. Gee.

[Mutley]

33. No way. No one deserves that, especially a little girl.

She's just a child for gods sake.

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. I would NEVER wish that on a child. She is only emulating her parents

unfortunate as it is. But, rape? No way.

[Azathoth]

16. Gotta get to 'em while they're young

If you wait too long, you run the risk that they might develop the Satanic desire to think for themselves.

I can't help but marvel at people who refuse to teach their children about sex until they get married, but are more than eager to provide them with graphic anatomical information about abortion and gestating fetuses in order to turn them into loyal soldiers for their political cause.

[Sleepless In NY]

17. I'd like to see her explain the "morality" of homeless& uninsured kids

But that would have to mean caring about the living, and they only care about the unborn.

[Erika]

18. She's been raised in a sheltered environment

and thinks everyone else has. She's an innocent who is being totally used. Can you imagine if she was even addressed as to those without a home, health care, or a future. She'd blow a fuse.

[Skidmore]

21. Wanna make a bet that that young lady hasn't been told

how a baby is conceived yet?

[orleans]

22. maybe this is what rick santorum had in mind

when he brought the dead fetus home for his children to kiss and hold.

etch!

(his kids will be in therapy for years over that crap!)

[Raine]

24. Poor little girl

a child that young shouldn't have to deal with that kind of issue. People who upset their children and involve them in that kind of thing taking away their innocence shouldn't even be parents. :mad:

[derby378]

26. Junior Anti-Sex League, anyone?

Funny how her clothes look like a Soviet-era uniform for the Young Pioneers or something like that. By design, perhaps?

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Get'em while they're young . . .

[Mutley]

32. Isn't 9 a little early to be filling a child's mind not only with sex

but with images of aborted fetuses? That would seem wrong to me even if I were pro-life.

[murielm99]

36. Images of aborted fetuses!

I know kids grow up more quickly these days, but I did not know what abortion was when I was nine. My mother had a baby when I was ten, and I learned about babies and reproduction then. I asked, and she answered.

My kids are in their twenties. I know we did not talk about abortion when they were nine. I am glad none of them asked me about abortion at that age. I would have had a hard time with that question. I handled the other sex questions well enough. My mother set a good example.

I will never understand what is wrong with these people. I don't wish the child any ill. But the parents? Kids have nightmares. This kid most likely will get them, given what her parents have exposed her to. If she does have nightmares, I hope her parents enjoy their sleepless nights.

[Mutley]

37. This should be child abuse.

Her parents are taking away her childhood. She knows about sex, she knows about abortion, I wonder what else she knows.

[ScreamingMeemie]

34. The child should not pay for being misguided by the parent.

Flash forward 8 or 9 years and little unnamed girl gets herself in "trouble"...what will Mommy and Daddy do then? I have an inkling.,

[zbdent]

39. Average mental age of the sheep

She would be a professor at a Right-Wing University . . .

[nonconformist]

40. What a beautiful little girl

Her parents should be ashamed, using her like that.

[ComerPerro]

42. TheoCons are beyond shame. No guilt. No remorse.

Children are meant to be exploited, not loved.

[VOX]

47. Well said. n/t

[ComerPerro]

41. But when she is pregnant at age 14, her mom will make it go away

[MountainLaurel]

48. Of course by then

She'll probably have to take a trip to Europe or Puerto Rico for an "appendectomy."

[jmowreader]

43. This is like the "five year old preacher"

I don't remember this kid's name, but I became aware of him when he was about five years old. This child apparently learned to read when he was three and started emulating the TV preachers he saw...his mom and dad saw him doing it, bought him some very nice suits and took him on tour to all these churches where you could hear the Word Of The Lord coming out of a five-year-old mouth.

Ministers who still have their baby teeth are fun to watch, if you're into that kind of thing, but where's the connect between the Word Of The Lord and the real lives of the congregation? Can he understand why God turned Lot's wife into a pillar of salt?

On to Claire Miller. She can't possibly understand that there are cases where abortion is the best thing for the fetus--fetuses missing major organs, for instance--or the only way to save the life of the mother. Her mom and dad told her abortion was a terrible thing and she had to work to stop it, so she got a True Facts About Abortion By Jack Chick tract and learned it by heart. And now she's the star of anti-Roe rallies. Dressed in her Young Pioneers neckerchief and prim white blouse, all the fundies adore her. Ten years from now, she'll be a sidewalk counselor telling women carrying ectopic pregnancies THAT THEY WANTED TO CARRY TO TERM they're murdering their children. (That is, assuming Alito doesn't overturn Roe and Bush doesn't sign the EO demanding states implement abortion bans that I muttered about a couple of weeks ago.)

Don't ignore little Claire. She's the future of the so-called "pro-life" movement, and the future's lookin' grim.

[Jensen]

44. Notice the cute "RED" scarf ....

pretty much like they ware in CHINA, CUBA and such countries....!
Yeah, start those young ones while their are still in the crib!

[onecent]

49. Dear God!!!

[KamaAina]

50. We used to call those dolls "king cake babies"

In New Orleans, where I was defending clinics about 15 years ago, it is a tradition during Carnival season (which began Jan. 6) to eat "king cakes", basically a cake sprinkled with the purple, green and gold colors of Mardi Gras, with a small plastic doll (much smaller than that one) baked inside. Whoever gets the slice with the king cake baby has to buy the next cake.

So when the anti's would start waving those dolls around, we'd start cracking jokes about king cake babies: "You're buying the next one, Reverend!" At least those anti's never stooped so low as to expolit a child this way. :puke:

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