Becky Carrubba, a student at Gowana, said that she was told she was “too young to believe in these type of things.” She stood her ground and said that the principal shouldn't say what 8th graders could and could not believe in or for that matter what they should talk about. “I just want people to know that it is wrong to kill a baby, because it is killing, and I think it’s good for them to know at an early age” she told me.

So 8th graders are old enough to have abortions without parental consent, but not old enough to believe it's wrong.   Sorry, but my 8-year-old knows it's wrong, and I didn't have to tell her that. That's why people want it "safe, legal, and rare," right?

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