OH-2: Crazy Jean Schmidt Is BACK! Talks Abortion To 1st Graders


David Potts - Posted on 25 October 2010

H/T to Anthony at Ohio Daily and commenter “Muffet

It seems the insane “Mean Jean” Schmidt we all know and love is back. It seems someone decided it was a good idea to let Jean Schmidt speak to school children, and she used at least part of that time to preach about abortion.

Below is a portion of a letter the school sent home to parents from WLWT:

"Unexpectedly, towards the end of her address, Congresswoman Schmidt brought up the topic of abortion, and I am writing you to make you aware of this. Your children may come home with questions, especially if this is a topic that has not been broached in your home. I do not recall the exact words she used, but she paused towards the end of her speech and stated that this would be the only time when she would be ‘political’ in her address. She defined abortion as the taking of a child’s life in the mother’s womb. She indicated that abortion involves the killing of a child before it is born. She was not graphic or any more detailed in this regard. Later, when a child asked about it, she indicated that an abortion is something that a doctor does when a mother requests this. It was not a particularly long segment of her address (1½ minutes or so), and these words may not match the exact words she used, but this description does, I believe, express what your child heard. Her point was to address the increase of governmental activity in the abortion issue and her political resolve to fight against this."

Not only did she discuss abortion with kids so young they still believe they were delivered by a stork, she knowingly and admittedly did it in a political manner.

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I commented on this on Facebook and shouldn't have. I try to keep my facebook comments light - politics turns off so many of my family. So my comments said that my daughter was about that age when she asked questions about abortion (she'd hurt it on TV) and incorrectly I said it wasn't clear from the article if anyone was upset. You corrected me, saying the first paragraph said parents were upset. Further reading of the article will also tell you that Ms. Schmidt was responding to questions (it's not clear what the question was) and that when it came up a second time she told students to discuss the matter with their parents. I find this disingenuous when the left is so willing to discuss homosexuality and every other subject in schools without parental consent or notification. Yet someone accurately describes abortion at a private school and you get upset?

The only account I've seen that mentioned Schmidt responding to a question came from her staff, so I'm taking that with a grain of salt.

And if an elected official was asked about abortion, why did she answer it in such a setting? It should have been pretty easy to dodge such a question like she apparently did the second time.

Even leaving abortion out of it completely, how appropriate is it for an elected official visiting a school to get political?

If it comes from her staff, it's not to be trusted, but if it comes from an un-named principal at an un-named school it is to be trusted? Or when it agrees with your ideas it is to be trusted, otherwise, throw it out? Somehow, discussing abortion at a Catholic school doesn't seem political to me. The principal said that her statements agreed with Catholic ideas. Even if she did preface her comments with a caveat to the "politics", she seems to have taken a very "soft" stance on it. The article now has more details, nothing in it is un-factual. And she suggested students talk to their parents. Unlike the left that tells students not to tell parents and ignore parental consent rules in public schools.

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