englishmajor wrote:That is true, real life. At six weeks, tiny fingernails are beginning to form. Pro abortionists should be required to be at an abortion during the suction part. They'd really like that.
However, making a woman carry a child when that woman has been raped, or if the preg is due to incest, is something different. I have a hard time with that one. Pregnancy can be life threatening for some women. I would not expect a daughter of mine to carry a child due to rape.......would you, really?
Hi Englishmajor,
Yes, I have a difficult time with the rape and incest question also.
(If the pregnancy is an imminent threat to the woman's life, I think that abortion must be an option. This has been my consistent position.)
Pregnancy due to rape or incest is a very difficult situation and also an extremely rare one. However, the unborn is an innocent victim of this crime, just as the woman is.
Neither the woman, nor the unborn should die for the crime of the rapist. I think most women instinctively understand this and would not want to be the cause of death against one who is defenseless.
I would not expect her to want to raise the child who is born as a result of rape or incest, but you know, many do make this choice. Those who make this choice, I think, validate my view somewhat that women would instinctively move to protect these children who are also victims of the same crime.
However, my view is that we ought to ban the over 90% of abortions that are for convenience reasons (granting exceptions for life of the mother, rape, incest) first. Then we can work further on the knottier problems of rape and incest.
Another aspect of the rape question is statutory rape. Currently abortionists openly violate laws that require they report statutory rape cases, and they incur no penalty for shielding rapists. Fixing this, I think, would go a long way toward putting rapists on notice when under-age girls finally start to get some protection from predatory males.
In the case of an under-age girl, if we made sure that the unborn underwent mandatory DNA testing in any abortion clinic and law enforcement aggressively pursued this for a match, and judges would join in with stiff penalties, I think the incidence of incest and statutory rape would plummet. For society to tolerate predatory behavior and victimization of these young girls is inexcusable.
Go Real Life!
