Posted on 10/27/2006 7:33:37 AM PDT by MockTurtle
I think you are on to something. I just did a search for "Dear Abby" and "Parental Notification" and came up with another very suspiciously similar "story." This ran 10/07/05. Anyone else?
DEAR ABBY: From time to time, you tell young women who think they might be pregnant and are afraid to tell their parents, to do so. I usually do not write letters like this, but I need to express my personal experience. I am a minister. Several years ago, I worked for Planned Parenthood and we had a young girl -- around 13 years of age -- test positive for pregnancy. We urged her to tell her parents, but she kept refusing, insisting, "Dad will kill me!"
Of course, we knew better, and finally convinced her that the best thing was to tell her parents, have the baby, and get on with her life.
Her father beat her so badly that she was in the hospital for more than a month. She lost the baby because of the beating and ended up in foster care.
I will never again tell a young person that her parents will not go crazy, and I don't think you should do that either. Thanks, Abby. I enjoy your column. -- REGRETFUL IN FLORIDA
DEAR REGRETFUL: Thank you for the warning. Even though we wish all teenagers could disclose to their parents, as your letter illustrates, it is a sad reality that some of them cannot. And we, who care about young people, have to first be concerned with their safety. Although most young girls do involve their families, there will always be some who are unable to do so.
For that reason, I do not believe that parental notification should be mandated by law. And because sex education is no longer taught in as many states as it had been before, I strongly urge parents to begin talking to their children early about the facts of life and their personal value systems, in order to create a safe and comfortable environment should a crisis occur.
99.5% of Dear Abby's letters are made up.
This is not murder because . . .
Dear Abby has been caught publishing fake letters before. Apparently nobody cares, or else everybody knows that it's faked, just like TV wrasslin'.
Absolutely phony! This happening in Sherman Oaks?! No way.
Who's got the time to run this down? Abby's publishers and syndicator should be pushed HARD to prove the accuracy of this tale. She doesn't have to "reveal" who the "girl" "is," but she has to demonstrate to the people and companies who sign her paychecks that she just didn't make this up so she'd have a setup for preaching a pro-abort message.
It's more lying and manipulation by liberal newspaper people, and the pajamahadeen, with the help of pro-life groups, need to expose her.
I believe it's the daughter.
So the friend told her she was pregnant but left out the part that her father had beaten her before?? Sorry, the letter and the answer sounds like a setup.
Editorials and political ads disguised as letters.
I think the letter culd be authentic, if you consider the possibility that "Jill's" father is named Mohammed.
I'm sure y'all have herd this before. The School Nurse can't give my Kid aspirins, but they can give my Child an abortion... : ) <<< me
Thanks, Abby! Next time I need a little encouragement when I am feeling down about my immoral and irresponsible behavior, I'll drop you a line!
PIMF
Spot on.
Pauline Friedman's sister Esther went by the penname "Ann Landers."
Esther's daughter Margo Howard now has an advice column called "Dear Margo."
LOL!!!
Are there Muslims in Sherman Oaks?
Not only would the father be in jail, it would be all over the MSM. I say this is a fake.
This is one of the weak arguments being used against the Parental Notification proposition that's on the California ballot this year. How convenient it shows up in a Dear Abby column a week before the election.
IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN (or so Hillary would like you to believe)
Hillary Clinton Tapes Phone Calls to Defeat California Abortion Proposal
http://www.lifenews.com/state1902.html
Sacramento, CA (LifeNews.com) -- Although pro-abortion New York Sen. Hillary Clinton has attempted to moderate her public image on abortion, the potential 2008 presidential candidate is taking a position against a parental notification on abortion proposal in California that puts her at odds with about 70 percent of the American public.
Clinton is lending her voice to a campaign by Planned Parenthood's California affiliate to defeat a state ballot initiative that would require letting parents know when their minor teenager daughters are considering an abortion.
In taped telephone messages that are being sent to more than 250,000 households across the state, Clinton echoed the abortion businesses talking points against the measure.
"We are opposed because 85 will put our most vulnerable teens at risk — teens who may already be endangered by negligent or even abusive homes," Clinton claims in the phone messages.
"We can do better. Let's work together to protect all our children," she adds, according to a New York Sun report.
Albin Rhomberg, a spokesman for the Yes on 85 effort, told the newspaper that Clinton's calls against parental notification place her squarely in the pro-abortion camp that opposes any reasonable limits on abortions.
"It looks like Hillary's moving pretty far to the other side now," he told the Sun. "It also shows that Hillary is quite fickle. She seems to want to please whatever the winds are or the tide at the time."
Her phone calls also put her at odds with herself.
In a previous speech, according to the Sun, Clinton described the history of her views on abortion and said "I supported parental notification with a judicial bypass" referring to a parental notification law she claims to have supported in Arkansas.
Yet, in July, Clinton voted against a Congressional bill that would have affirmed state parental consent and notification laws by prohibiting someone from taking a teen to another state for a secret abortion without her parents' involvement.
Stephen Smith, with the No on 85 campaign, told the Sun he expects Clinton's phone calls to have an impact.
"She has a name people recognize. People stand up and take notice," he said.
A new poll out this week has the California initiative essentially tied because the results are within the margin of error. The new poll, conducted by Datamar Inc., shows 46.3 percent of California residents back Proposition 85 while 45.2 percent opposed it.
The survey shows decline in support for the parental notification proposal from 48.5 to 46.3 percent from a September Datamar poll. Opposition to the measure is up from 42 percent in September.
Other polls have shown a close race as well and an August Field Poll showed voters split 45 to 44 against Proposition 85.
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