[nickcarraway]

I remember seeing this, and I think they are missing a big part. Planned Parenthood makes money from abortions, so obviously they are not impartial on the matter. They make money off every woman they ``counsel'' into having an abortion. If a teenager wrote to ``Dear Abby'' that she was deciding whether to smoke or not, would she send them to Phillip Morris for advice?

Plus, I believe I have read that PP's in the U.S. do not counsel adoption. Adoption groups should be taking this up with her.

[nickcarraway]

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[Capriole]

Are we surprised? This is the same Dear Abby who yesterday ended her column by wishing her Muslim readers a happy Whatever-the-Hell-Holiday-It-Is-For-Muslims.

[firebrand]

Dear Abby and previously Ann Landers do us a great disservice. They are like the friendly counselor who tells us what we want to hear, never getting below the surface to what will really make us happy.

"Shop around." "Tell her off in no uncertain terms." "Stand up for yourself--learn to say no." "You are under no obligation to help such people." "Make your rules clear." It is to vomit.

[Houmatt]

Plus, I believe I have read that PP's in the U.S. do not counsel adoption.

You have read correctly. There is no money in adoption, so Planned Parenthood routinely does its best to steer a young, confused female to abort their unborn child, regardless of consequences to health.

The column in question also mentioned Margaret Sanger, the PP creator, but once again Sanger's overt racism and embrace of Eugenics was conveniently forgotten.

Abby is nothing but a liberal mouthpiece for leftist causes. If people are looking for advice, they should go to Dr. Joy Browne.

[Cicero]

I'd be extremely surprised if Planned Parenthood ever advised any minor who came to them what the options were.

Their money is from abortions and birth control. They would abort that young girl quick as a flash, never mention the alternatives, and sell her a packet of birth control pills on her way out the door. Then her parents would be left to wonder what was wrong with her and why she seemed so depressed and miserable.

[FormerLib]

This is not your mother's Dear Abby.

[Johnny Gage]

The real "abby" and now her daughter have always been "pro-choice" and "anti-gun" as long as I can remember.

This column by her is of no surprise to me.

[Dante3]

"Dear Abby" is dead. Someone else is writing her column. Doesn't this come under "truth in labeling laws"? And much of the advice is nonsense and/or boring.

I'm surprised The Washington Times carries this column. Surely there are better ones.

[MHGinTN]

"However, abortions are far safer today than they were 10 years ago -- and certainly safer than when the procedure was illegal and performed in back alleys." ... Well, 'Dear Abby' discounts the 42,000,000 individual lifetimes terminated on the altar of serial killing choice as insignificant. Not surprising that she also asserted the following bilge, playing switcheroo with contraception and serial killing in the unholy name of 'liberty' through killing the innocent: "A woman who is not in charge of her reproductive life is not in charge of her life. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the average woman, without birth control, would have between 12 and 15 pregnancies in her lifetime." [It is also interesting to note that the defenders of the indefensible play games with decades old quotes and half-century medical science posed as excuse for modern serial killing methodologies. Dear Abby is disgusting in the main, a product of her liberal leftist neighborhood.]

[baseballfanjm]

Her reactions are exactly the reactions from all feminists when presented with a better argument from a pro-lifer, and that is starting to spew their propaganda about "choice" and such, without ever answering the question.

It's what it would be like if you dialed 911 and got an automated response. "If you're house is burning down, dial 1; if you're house in being broken in to, dial 2; if you are having a medical crisis, please hold and wait for more options." You can't get through to them, since they're delusional.

Anyway, I'm one of six kids, and my mom is a lot more qualified for a job like this than "Dear Abbey". But my mom's honest, no-nonsense attitude would get her fired immediately.

[ex-snook]

"However, abortions are far safer today than they were 10 years ago -- and certainly safer than when the procedure was illegal and performed in back alleys." ...

Not safer for the baby for sure.

[Sloth]

"Planned Parenthood's mission is to help women make the right choice for them. For some, that means carrying a pregnancy to term. For others, it means using birth control. For others, it means drowning toddlers one by one in your bathtub. And for still others it can mean having an abortion. It is a matter of personal freedom and deeply personal choice."

[sr4402]

Very sorry to hear that Dear Abby has turned to conventional wisdom. Her advise used to be pretty good. Not trusting parents/authorities to do the right thing is a symptom of bad counsel. When in trouble, run to the authorities, and parents are at the top of the list. If no one else cares for you, they should.

Abortion is a bad deal for everyone involved. It's a bad deal spiritually, phyisically and relationally. Spiritually one has to cover up with more fig leaves that don't help. Physically a woman may not be able to have children or have increased chances for cancer. Relationally, the childs father splits after the abortion leaving a devistated young woman with emotional scars for life.

The forgiveness in Christ's blood can take away the guilt, but those who recommend abortion have the blood of the innnocents on their hands and I wouldn't want to be in their place explaining to God why they helped get rid of ones whom God knew in the womb.

The good news is that she is using old rhetoric and that it doesn't work the way it used to. Our young people are skeptical of the old rhetoric and do not like abortion at all. Pray that the tide continues to turn and that repentance may pour down from heaven on our land once more.

[Mr. Silverback]

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[T Minus Four]

I stopped reading Anne/Abby a few years ago when she advised a mother that her young teenage son "had the right" to have a collage of pictures of naked women on the wall in his room. A collage that his girlfriend had made him. After all, it was HIS room, she said. I almost projectile vomited on the newspaper.

[Coleus]

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

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