By Dave Andrusko
This is turning into a truly interesting back and forth for me. Many of you have already responded, assuming that the person to whom you have only one-to-two minutes to make your life-saving message is the pregnant girl (http://nrlc.cc/Xj3MCP and http://nrlc.cc/Xj3QCP). But what if we switch the recipient from the girl to her parents?
I would really like to hear what you’d say in the following two scenarios.
First, you pretty much know for sure they desperately do not want their daughter to abort. What advice could you offer? (We’re assuming, for the sake of this discussion, that the girl was legally or otherwise felt obligated to inform them she was pregnant, knowing she may now go to the abortionist.)
Second, alternatively, you know the girl does not want to abort but her parents’ first instinct is to counsel/browbeat/coerce her into aborting. (As you know this happens a lot. What was unusual in the Texas case we reported on was that the girl and her boyfriend took the parents to court and secured an agreement that they would not use physical force or psychological coercion to try to compel their daughter to abort. See http://nrlc.cc/ZJpBQ4.)
How would you attempt to reach those parents? You can assume either that their motives are not the best OR that they are genuinely convinced that their daughter’s life would “be ruined” unless she aborts.
And, if you want to add a further wrinkle, assume you are talking to the parents of the baby’s father.
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