Why do u say you are pro life, but.........................?

Question

Why would one say they are pro life, but yet only consider abortion in the event of rape? Woul that mean you are actually pro choice? I heard someone make that statement and they consider themselves pro life uh?

Answer 1

Yeah, you're right. That's just a variation on the safe, legal, and rare mantra of the pro-choicers. Advocating for abortion only in the case of rape or incest is still pro-choice, because then you're no longer focusing on the life of the child, but rather how "bad" things have to be in order for the woman to be "justified" in making the choice to terminate the baby's life.

To be truly pro-life, you have to say 1) no abortion, ever; or 2) no abortion unless the mother will almost certainly die without it.

(The latter is acceptable because then the intent is not to kill the baby; rather, the intent is to save the mother's life and the death of the baby an unavoidable and tragic side-effect of the treatment).

Answer 2

Abortion is a very personal decision. I personally am Pro-life. I became pregnant as the result of rape I had a baby boy. By the time I gave birth I knew I could never look at him and be able to accept the circumstances of his conception so I gave him up for adoption. I just wasn't strong enough to raise him. On the other hand at times it is a medical decision and not a moral one. If I had contracted HIV or some other transmittable, incurable disease I would have had an abortion. Why the hell would I have given birth to a child condemned to die???

Answer 3

That is why I'm pro-choice. I believe a woman should have the right to choose in such extreme circumstances as incestial rape and when the pregnancy could threaten the life of the mother. I do not believe abortion should be used as birth control.

Answer 4

This is going to be a difficult question, its one of those argument starters. I am pro-life in the sense that I myself cound not live with having an abortion, however, if your ten year old daughter was raped and became pregnant or suffered incest or something, it's not in her best interest or the childs to have the baby. Or if you child was going to be severely retarded to the point where there would be no quality of life, as a parent you wouuldnt want them to suffer. I am pro-choice in a sense, but I am pro-life when my own body is at stake as well.

Answer 5

I have a similar dilemma. I am pro-life and wouldn't decide to have an abortion due to a pregnancy attributed to rape. But I am also not sure I totally disagree with the death penalty. I guess the only thing that comes close is even though sometimes the mother doesn't have a choice in becoming pregnant, the baby never has the choice whether or not to be concieved. Murderers and the such all made their choices.

Answer 6

In my opinion, someone who is pro-life would not favor abortion under any circumstance, not even rape or threat to the mother's life.

During my pregnancies, my family understood that if anything happened that threatened my life or the baby's life, saving the baby came first. Some would say that is not fair to the surviving family members, but to forfeit my baby's life so I might live is not an option. The father and other family members will be there to love and care for the child/ren. How could I ever tell anyone that I killed my baby so that I might live? I lived my life; the baby needs that same chance.

Answer 7

In the event of rape, the mother could have contracted an STD she would be passing onto the baby if it came to term...either through birth (like herpes) or exposure to the mother's blood (HIV / AIDS). In the event of child molestation, it's likely the mother would be too young to be able to carry the baby to term. Thus, aborting the baby would be the best choice for mother and child--as the child AND mother would likely die during the birth. An abortion would save one life, since the baby's would have all ready been lost.

I'm pro-choice, but even pro-life supporters can't deny the validity of the STD argument in today's world. A child born with HIV would die painfully within five or six years of birth. Would you rather lose the child to a death no intelligent creature should be forced to suffer, or quietly and less traumatically end its life before it's born? Concerning rape, is it right to save a baby who wasn't wanted in the first place and would be statistically less likely to enjoy a full, wholesome life? Do we have the right to subject an unwanted, under-developed or physically ill baby to traumatically higher levels of physical and emotional abuse simply because society is forced to make room for them?

An absolute standpoint leaves no room for intelligent choices. Nothing is as black-and-white as those here seem to believe it is. You forget the many shades of gray that make up life in society as we know it. So it stands to reason there must be varying degrees of "pro-life" supporters--why must it all be one extreme?

EDIT: **Sigh** After reading all the arguments at hand, I must say two things: first, that I believe clinical abortion after the first trimester (when the fetus has developed nerve impulses and a beating heart) is wrong for all but the rarest cases.

The second is that I don't believe ANYONE who is decidedly "pro-life" here is looking at the issue from a scientific standpoint. Your stance is purely emotional, using terms like "murder" and "evil" to form a position that should have valid psychological or biological points to sustain it.

Provide me with proof beyond your heart, and I will listen. Otherwise, your lack of logic and education shows in your inability to intelligently debate vital issues.

Answer 8

It makes alot of sense and unless if you're a female you wouldn't understand. Wouldn't be better for the childs sake to abort rather it being born to a loveless and recentful mother or given it up for adoption. What if your raper had HIV or an STD that could be passed along to the child. It's bad enough that you have it, but why would you want to give that to you unborn child or even worst bring someone into the world without even a fighting a chance?

See ppl don't think about things like......they just see black and white and the world isn't a cut and dry place.

Answer 9

That IS pretty hypocritical. That's always bothered me too. You're either pro-life or pro-choice... you can't just be whichever one feels good at the time.

I believe you can support abortion in the event that pregnancy endangers the life of the mother, but there's a big difference between convenience/emotion and doing it to save a life.

Answer 10

Not right, ever. If only 1% of rapes create a pregnancy, then why are millions of babies aborted every year? Because people don't take the consequences of their actions. If someone commits murder, they just say they were temporarily insane. If someone wants to have casual sex, they just call it a "fetus" & get an abortion. I've never heard a woman who's planning to have her baby call it a fetus. That word's only use to desensitize us, so we don't think it's such a bad thing.