ABORTION.......

Let's see, the under-age girl meets up with a boy at at party and winds up pregant. She shouldn't have gone there you say and you want to give her an out.

Currently, the way it works is that the abortionist typically does not report this case of statutory rape, and violates most state laws requiring that he do so, and gets off free while pocketing a fee.

The rapist then is also free from detection and is free to prey on other under-age girls.

The girl is victimized a second time by a society which lays the burden of this on her alone and steers her toward putting to death an innocent third party.

The unborn pays the ultimate price for the rapist's crime and dies at the hands of the well paid abortionist.

I agree with Phoenix.

Raising the child is not always a realistic option. Adoption is not always a realistic option.
Given that there are always unwanted pregnancies; ALL the options should be available. This allows a woman/girl to make the best possible choice for her circumstances.

Some folks find it morally repugnant to give a child away for adoption. Can you imagine if it were illegal to do so? wow. That would be screwy.
And hey; before anyone goes and points out that abortion and adoption are two different things: don't bother. I already know.

I agree with Phoenix.

Raising the child is not always a realistic option. Adoption is not always a realistic option.
Given that there are always unwanted pregnancies; ALL the options should be available. This allows a woman/girl to make the best possible choice for her circumstances.

Some folks find it morally repugnant to give a child away for adoption. Can you imagine if it were illegal to do so? wow. That would be screwy.
And hey; before anyone goes and points out that abortion and adoption are two different things: don't bother. I already know.

Eorl,
Do I understand your rational correctly? 14 year old girls may become pregnant. Rather than look at the cause of the pregnancy and work on that, we will just give the errant girl the opportunity to dispose of the resulting life that has been created. After all, nobody has seen this life so why not just get rid of it. Then, the 14 year old girl can go and get pregnant again because there is an out.

Where are your values? Where are your morals? Don't fix the cause, give a way to escape the consequences.

Put the responsiblility where it belongs.

What the "pro-life" follks seem to be avoiding is facing the consequences of the rules they wish to introduce.

Let me give an example too.

A girl is 15. Her father has been having sex with her since she was ten. Her father has assured her that he will kill her if anyone ever knows. She falls pregnant...she knows the child is the product of incest and will have an abortion. Sure, even those against abortion would probably agree to allow it...if she tells everybody it's her father's !!!! If abortion is illegal, she will still find a way...at much greater risk to her life.

Those of you who made it illegal will throw your hands in the air and say it's all the fathers fault, which of course it is....but you can't avoid the responsibilty of the risks you force her to take with your laws.

Some of you would say every life is sacred and the baby should be born and the daughter/mother forced to raise it....but no, somehow I am the one who is morally corrupt....go figure

(go on real life, ask me to produce reliable figures of how many fathers ever got their daughters pregnant and nobody ever found out)

My morals and my values tell me that it is cruel and ignorant to create an environment that requires a 14 year old girl to track down an illegal backyard abortion clinic and withhold proper medical care from her. Your morals and values tell you she deserves death for the crime of her pregnancy...but hey, if a book says a god is on your side, then yours must be better.

Do what you can to prevent unwanted pregnancy by all means (and you better include contraception and the morning after pill) but don't jettison your responsibility to find a realistic solution if it happens anyway.

How dare you question my morals and values ? I value life as much if not more than you, which is why I would save a dog before an 8 week foetus, only my idea of what constitutes a valuable life is not twisted by ridiculous church propaganda.

So many smug christians all soooo comfortable in their certainty of everything.....unquestionable right and wrong, black and white morals....standards written by gods....if only you could see how twisted and sick you look from where I stand.

There are 46 million abortions every year, 20 million of those are illegal.

There are 46 million abortions every year, 20 million of those are illegal.

yes MA there are women who have abortions for reasons of convenience as well as other reasons. There are also women who smoke crack when they're pregnant, drink gallons of booze when they're pregnant, over-eat when they're pregnant and contract VD when they're pregnant. There are also women who have full term healthy babies because they were responsible women. Let's make a law that only responsible healthy oriented women be allowed to get pregnant. What say ye to that?

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