Regarding South Dakota's Abortion Bill... Are you aware of what it says? Do you support it?

Question

It bans all abortion except when the mother's life is in danger.


That INCLUDES a ban on a woman seeking an abortion for a pregnancy resulting from rape.

Even if you're pro-life, isn't that a little extreme?

Doesn't that effectively give power to rapists?
If a rapist forcibly impregnates a woman, she has no other choice than to have the rapist's baby.


A raped woman isn't given the choice to say no to the intercourse, and now the state wants to come along and not give her a choice to say no to being a rapist's baby factory?

Personally, in that situation, I think a moral argument can be made that the state is guilty along with the rapist, as an accessory-after-the-fact. The would have teamed up to rob a woman of her most personal liberties.

How can anyone support such a thing???

I think that it's easy for you gentlemen to dismiss a woman's liberty that easily. It can't happen to you.

Remember, we're talking about a woman who has already been victimized and had her freedom stripped from her.
You want the state to come along and piss in her wounds????

way to avoid the issue as always, whydonaskdon.

you're a theological coward.

address the rape issue or crawl back into your hole

Answer 1

It's heinous. You have now punished the victim for something that they are an innocent in. What will it do to their mental stability if they have to carry a child that they do not want to carry. The poor woman will be scarred for life.

Answer 2

And how does one define the mother's life in danger by physical or mental means? Its a grey area but im sure there will be several cases in the near future of mothers committing suicide or killing the child that will make the people realise that the bill will need to be revised.
The problem is that these people that create the bill in the first place do not look at the doorstep but instead at the end of the road. Unless you have had talks to woman that have became pregnant through rape or not, I think that their experiences and thoughts should be taken into account before the bill was made. Nothing quite voice of experience.

Answer 3

Yes, I support the South Dakota abortion ban. Those who claim to be pro-life and yet excuse the murder of the unborn in the case of rape are not pro-life at all. They are pro-choice--that is, they think it is acceptable to choose murder in some circumstances.

We need to remember that the circumstances of a baby's conception are never the baby's fault. The baby never deserves to die for the crime of her father. Would you kill a one-month-old infant because her father was a rapist? Would she be less worthy of life than the rest of us? If I was raped, the fact that a crime had been committed against me would not give me the "right" to murder another innocent person.

Studies have shown that abortion only increases the trauma and grief of a woman who has been raped. She becomes the aggressor, hurting another innocent victim the way she was hurt, and the knowledge of that will haunt her long after she has healed from the rape. Recently, almost 200 women who conceived babies in rape were interviewed. None of the women who gave birth regretted it, while almost all of the women who aborted their babies expressed regret. Many felt that they had been forced into abortion. For those who were victims of incest, the abortion sometimes allowed the perpetrator to continue his molestation undetected. For more on this study and on the issue of rape and abortion, see:

http://www.afterabortion.info/Victims/index.htm
http://www.family.org/fofmag/sl/a0039249.cfm
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/Answers.cfm?ID=31
http://www.afterabortion.info/PAR/V2/n1/RAPESUM.htm

For more information on other aspects of abortion, see:

Photos of Abortions, Including 1st Trimester Abortions:
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/pictures.html

A Four-Minute, Must-See Video on Abortion:
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-4-video.html

Information on All Aspects of Abortion:
http://Abort73.com

Photos and Facts About Prenatal Development:
http://www.justthefacts.org/clar.asp
http://www.abort73.com/HTML/I-A-2-prenatal.html
http://www.studentsforlife.uct.ac.za/foetal%20dev%20photos.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/3847319.stm
http://www.lifeissues.org/ultrasound/11weeks.htm

Pain Perception in the Unborn:
http://www.advocatesfortheinnocent.com/fetalpain.html

Answer 4

Oh my God. This cannot be true! I am not pro-abortion. I AM pro-choice. Abortion is a personal decision that no one has the right to make except the woman involved. It is a decision between that woman and God. Women may wish to terminate a pregnancy for many reasons, all of which are her own. It is not done without a lot of thought. I know, I had an abortion over 25 years ago. I did what I thought I had to do at the time. I regret the pregnancy and the circumstances that led me to make the decision to terminate my pregnancy. No, I am NOT going to hell, because there is no hell. I now have a 13 year old son whom I wanted very much.

Answer 5

I think that the lawyers should jump on this like ugly on a dog and sue the pocketbook off the state. Then maybe they would look at the issue again and decide that maybe the woman has some rights after all.
Can she go to another state and get an abortion? Looks like SD will have a convoy of ladies heading out of the state and the doctors and clinics in the adjoining states will be helping to do the work of SD, shame but true.
I think it is the sole responsibility of the woman to take care of what she wants done to her body. It's my body and I'll be damned if I will give that right to anyone else ever.

Answer 6

I answer this as a women who has been raped and once feared this situation. I can understand how a woman can think of this as a correction but I can not understand how one could do it. Rape rarely results in pregnancy and if possible the woman should carry the child and give it up to one who will love it, it is not the childs fault. But if the woman feels she cannot possibly do this then it should be between her and God. I have to say however that there is a high rate of depression and emotional illnesses following abortion.It is not a choice that is free in any situation. As I have said I leave that choice in this situation between her and God.

Answer 7

Though I can understand if the woman chooses to keep the baby because of her own convictions, I just don't see how she can be forced to do so. That would be 9 long months of psychological torture. This is unsupportable. These are the kinds of things that lead to illegal unsafe abortions that can damage or kill the mother along with the baby. Yes I am pro life, but I am pro women's lives as well. since this is not a perfect world and abortions are going to happen, let's keep them safe and available for the people who really do need them. (I just wish people wouldn't use them as birth control.)

Answer 8

Unfortunately, this is the only consistent anti-abortion stance there is. Incest and/or rape cannot make abortion acceptible, because the status of the father does not make a (presumed) life any less a life. one of the major blows against the anti-abortion position is just this point.

PS- It would help us all to not use the polarized language of the neo-con, this is why I use the term anti-abortion.

Answer 9

That is just horrible. Years ago, I was gang raped and had I become pregnant as a result, I can guarantee that I would've killed myself and the thing I was carrying. That is just horrible to force such a thing on a woman when she's already been wounded enough.

Answer 10

They don't believe in evolution so they don't see how allowing rapists to have kids through rape is abd thing for the woman and society.

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