Georgia Cops Impound Anti-Abortion Billboard Truck, Jail Driver

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KarenNC said:
You can certainly let your children under the age of 7 watch sex without responsibility on TV and movies and instruct them in condom use if you so desire. You can even show them abortion photos and videos, they are certainly widely available. I don’t happen to know very many parents who think that would be the wisest decision. I think you are woefully misguided if you treat them as little adults.

What you are missing here is that all of those things you mention involve some choice or action on the part of the parent. They have a choice of whether or not to allow the child to watch that sort of thing or buy tickets to that kind of movie (I do not do so) or whether their child participates in sex education classes that show condom usage in preschool (and I have never heard of any that do).

In this case, it is the people on the street corner who have decided that they get to choose how my child is raised and to what my child is exposed based on their own opinions. I do not cede the right to raise my child to TV executives, movie makers, public educators or to you simply because you choose to stand on a street corner.

Yes, my child knows where babies come from and has seen photos of normal fetal development since the time she was 4, at the latest. She is well aware that babies are babies before they are born. She knows that it is bad to hurt others, including babies. What she does not need to see are mutilated blood covered baby corpses when she is years away from puberty, much less the sort of activity that leads one to seek an abortion.
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As long as your kids are not put in a bubble they are getting constant doses of bad stuff.
 
buffalo said:
As long as your kids are not put in a bubble they are getting constant doses of bad stuff.
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If your child is truly “getting constant doses of bad stuff” I would advise that you reconsider your choice of parenting methods and lifestyle. Because she gets dirty on the playground does not therefore mean I should throw her in a sewer “because she’s going to get dirty anyway”.

I was not aware that the mission of Christians was to deliberately go out of their way to subject young children to “bad stuff”, however. When Christ said “suffer the children” that is not what I was taught was meant.
 
estesbob said:
There is no evidencethat these pictures traumatized people let alone children. Accordingly according there is no double effect to worry about
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I know that mapleoak and estesbob have repeatedly dismissed the following information, but I offer it for the sake of others. As we have discussed, these are graphic photographs of real dead bodies frequently clearly recognizable as blood covered dismembered and or decapitated or otherwise mutilated babies. They are very akin to showing victims of war, only in this case, close to the child’s age or the age of the child’s younger sibling or relative or that of a friend.

webmd.com/parenting/guide/violent-images-impact-kids-differently
Ideally, say the experts, it’s best to avoid exposing very young children to violent images altogether.

“For children under 6, it’s realistic to shield them a fair amount,” says Nadine Kaslow, PhD, a psychologist in Emory University’s department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences.

That includes what they overhear from their parents’ conversations. “Monitor your conversations,” Kaslow cautions adults.

webmd.com/parenting/guide/violent-images-impact-kids-differently?page=3
Reduce Excessive Exposure at Any Age
Most experts agree that children, regardless of age, should not be exposed to an excessive amount of violent images. Seeing a bomb explode is one thing. Watching it detonate repeatedly can make a single incident seem much grander in scale, particularly to an audience of young children.

nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/edu_materials/talk_children_about_war.pdf

For younger children, parents should serve as a buffer or “protective shield” against unnecessary information, including conversations or disagreements between adults, as well as media coverage and images related to war.

kff.org/entmedia/upload/Key-Facts-Children-and-the-News.pdf
Guidelines for Journalists
Following are some suggestions for coverage of
tragic or traumatic events, from experts at New York
University’s Child Study Center*:
• Provide a warning about graphic content
…
Limit size, amount and repetition of graphic
content
• Limit use of intense graphics in news promotions
or front pages…"

aboutourkids.org/aboutour/articles/child_sensitive_media.html

familyinfoserv.com/pdf/graphicviolence.pdf

life.familyeducation.com/communication/war/36261.html
"Children under seven need special considerations:
Keep them away from television news. Commercial programming may be interrupted by frightening news bulletins. Horrific images can cause nightmares and may awaken other fears and anxieties and they may need comforting. "

pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/113/6/1771

etc, etc, etc.
 
Hope he gets some compensation for the property that the police destroyed.

Charges Against Driver of Truck with Graphic Abortion Photos Dropped - 1st Amendment Victory
ATLANTA, GA, December 5, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gwinnett County Solicitor General Rosanna Szabo announced Monday that the driver of Operation Rescue’s Truth Truck, Bob Roethisberger, who was arrested and jailed over Thanksgiving weekend will not be facing charges.
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Szabo stated that the display of the graphic photos of aborted babies depicted on the Truth Truck banners , “as shocking and offensive as they are - does not constitute ‘obscene and vulgar or profane language’ as specifically prohibited by this statute.”
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Cpl. Illana Spellman, spokesperson for the Gwinnett County Police Department confirmed to reporters Monday that “right now we’re suspending arrests of that nature.”
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pnewton said:
He should advise the man that the material was vulgar and offensive, that this was against the law and that he would have to take action if he didn’t remove the the signs. Of course, according to the article, this happened. I do not know what more the policeman could have done.
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Apparently the Solicitor General doesn’t agree with you:
Szabo stated that the display of the graphic photos of aborted babies depicted on the Truth Truck banners , “as shocking and offensive as they are - does not constitute ‘obscene and vulgar or profane language’ as specifically prohibited by this statute.”
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Cpl. Illana Spellman, spokesperson for the Gwinnett County Police Department confirmed to reporters Monday that “right now we’re suspending arrests of that nature.”
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