Phil, I agree with you.  I would rather see a mother on adc, trying to
raise a child, properly.  I don't like her manner.  I think she is cold,
brash and rude.  She has some good convictions but I think she presents
them, poorly.


At 12:09 PM 11/7/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Occasionally, when I have nothing else to do and I am checking different
>talk shows, I listen to Doctor Laura.  I agree with most all of her advice
>but about one out of ten times, I find something with which I disagree.
>Just prior to hearing Doctor Laura's advice to a 21 year old woman who gave
>birth to a child and was giving it away, I heard Focus on the Family and
>Doctor James Dobson telling about how he was at the signing of the partial
>birth ban which the President signed into law this week.  Switching from
>hearing the President talk about signing this bill into law and tuning in
>Doctor Laura was a strange event.  This 21 year old college student called
>in and was crying.  She had just given birth 8 days ago and prior to the
>birth, she and her family had talked it over and she was going to give her
>baby to her aunt and uncle to raise and to adopt.  Now, after the birth, she
>was having second thoughts and she desperately wanted to keep her baby.  To
>my amazement, Doctor Laura told her she had to stick to her decision and
>give the baby up.  I wanted to scream into the radio, why?  She wants to
>keep it now.  She wants to raise him now.  Instead, Doctor Laura advised her
>to continue going to school and to give up the baby.  Gretchen was 16 when
>she gave birth to Everett.  She gave up school and everything else to be his
>mother.  What would be wrong with a 21 year old young lady giving up school
>to raise her, note the word her, baby.  She is the mother; not her aunt.
>Doctor Laura supposedly stands for morality and all that is right but she
>missed the boat on this one by a country mile.  That young lady now wants to
>raise her child and she is old enough to do so even without help but she has
>a family who wants to help.  She isn't 14 or 15 or 16 years old, she is a
>freaking 21 year old woman; a grown adult.  She has the adult abilities to
>be a good mom and she wants to do that.  Yet, Doctor Laura talked her out of
>it.  Somehow, something feels wrong about all this.  I see that two judges
>have already ruled against the President's signing of the new law saying he
>can't do that but in his speech, he vowed to fight it in the courts to keep
>it law and to protect the unborn.  Praise God for that.
>
>Phil.

John

Actions lie louder than words. -- Carolyn Wells<*>