Writer and editor Danielle Campoamor says that her 7-year-old knew that she’d had an abortion when he was 4, and it was *super* easy to explain. Here she is with a friendly reminder for anyone else who talks about abortion with their young children.
Friendly reminder that it is *super* easy to explain abortion to kids. My 7 year old knew what it was, & that his mom had one, when he was 4. "Mom was pregnant when she didn't want to be & a doctor helped her. Then she was pregnant when she wanted to be & had me."
That simple.
— Danielle Campoamor (@DCampoamor) October 18, 2021
Same in our house. Never hid it,never shamed it.
— Leigh Tenhet (@tenhet_leigh) October 20, 2021
This description is *precisely* hiding it.
— Vento Azul (@vesteceleste) October 20, 2021
Yeah, it leaves out a lot. What does it mean for mom to be “pregnant”? Does that mean she was going to have a baby? It did when the baby was “wanted,” right? And how did the doctor help, exactly?
Simple, true, but there is a little confusion in the timing.
— Hugo Simonsen (@wotanhus) October 20, 2021
Brave, brave new world
— Tyler (@TylerHanson53) October 20, 2021
That’s… really sickening…
— SteelNetttori (@Brouhandas) October 20, 2021
I wonder if he'll ever think of the brother or sister he never got to meet?
— Hazzard County Engineer (@HazzardCoEng) October 20, 2021
Sounds a lot like you didn't explain what it means to be pregnant or how the doctor helped.
— Felicitas (@_Felicitas12) October 20, 2021
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Do you think he will never ask himself whether you could just decide to not want him anymore?
— Felicitas (@_Felicitas12) October 20, 2021
Soooo… you were totally willing to kill me if your state of mind or circumstances had been different at the time
— Gruntled (@NeverTr74704466) October 20, 2021
Horrid.
— Jim Boling (@jimboling) October 20, 2021
"Helped her" = killed her child in her womb, which is designed and supposed to be the safest place a baby can be.
— Holgadina Schokominza (@zuckerhoernchen) October 20, 2021
Well that’s horrifying. How heartbreaking to lose a sibling in such an avoidable manner and have the person that killed them make like it’s no big deal.
— Jocelyn Waulk Gorman (@ReformedMami) October 20, 2021
Friendly reminder, no need to explain this to a 7 year old.
— B.A (@Big_Brian86) October 20, 2021
Nothing like having that fireside chat with your wanted kid to let them know you killed their unwanted sibling b/c it wasn't convenient for you. That's a stellar message. Parenting done right 🙄
— Daniel Rozak (@decoloresdan) October 20, 2021
Well that’s bleak as hell…
— Trevor ن (@Kardea) October 20, 2021
Yes super easy to explain things to kids when you don’t use specifics and only talk in vague terms
— District Anarchy (@districtanarch1) October 20, 2021
https://twitter.com/RStapletonknows/status/1450936992988995585
This isn't explaining abortion, this is euphamizing and misrepresenting it.
— Andrew, Duke of Dads (@DukeOfTrads) October 20, 2021
Disgusting and so sad. At least be real with him. Wait until he’s older and learns exactly what they did to his little brother simply because his mom didn’t want him.
— Justin Dean (@justinjdean) October 20, 2021
in other words, "I killed your sibling cuz I didn't want it"
— BurnerTheCount (@BurnerTheCount1) October 20, 2021
Liberals can never quite pin down when a “clump of cells” becomes a “baby,” but it’s simple: if you wanted to get pregnant it’s a baby, and if you didn’t want to get pregnant, it’s a clump of cells. “Want” is the key. It’s science. That simple.
You talk to your 7 and 4 year old about abortions?
— John Anastasio (@JohnAnastasio56) October 20, 2021
Guarantee your 7 year old doesn't understand it. No matter what you get him/her to memorize.
— allen (@thebrooktown) October 20, 2021
Modern day parents are weird af. These are kids. They don’t need to know what an abortion is. Also convenient abortions are gross. Why do so many women opt for abortions when adoption is also a choice? You could’ve done an open or closed adoption.
— 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐧𝐚 (@OrtensiaBianca_) October 20, 2021
A cute way of brainwashing children into believing the intentional ending of a human life is really just a doctor helping a mom not be pregnant anymore.
— Tazorius (@Tazorius) October 20, 2021
We’re still stuck on why you’d tell your young children about your abortions.
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— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) September 30, 2021
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