Except in cases of rape and incest?

Question

I don't understand this rationale.

Let us imagine that you are a strong abortion opponent, insisting that a fetus has the same rights as a woman and that abortion is "murder."

Abortion should be outlawed, you say, except in cases of rape and incest.

Now imagine that the light of your life, your bright-spirited 13-year-old daughter is attacked on her way home from 8th grade. She is held down and the attacker has forced himself onto her, shattering her inncocence, ripping her insides. Imagine that she was too afraid to scream for you to come help her.

This all comes out when, three months later, you learn she is pregnant.

Being a good parent, you allow her to have an abortion.

Isn't this just a cop out? Obviously you don't believe that the fetus is human... it didn't do anything wrong, but you don't want to put your child through any more than she's been through. This is admirable, but this sounds like abortion is wrong unless YOU decide it isn't.

Please explain.

Yes, normally a woman should go immediately to the hospital, where she will be given RU486 as a precaution, but some rape victims, especially young teens, do not report the crime. That is the situation I am referring to.

But speaking to those who say that this is an exception because the victim didn't "choose" to have sex, you are not condemning the abortion, but the decision to have sex. Again, this choice is UP TO THE WOMAN and man involved. NOW you are saying that SEX is wrong unless it complies with YOUR standards.

Answer 1

Wow! This is indeed something to mull over in our minds! You've certainly given me enough to think over. Thank you!

Answer 2

I don't understand your question...or is this a rant? Abortion is legal. It has been legal for a long time, (Thanks to the Libs) and will continue to be legal. There are more Pro-Choice, than Pro-Life. Since we live in a democracy, majority vote rules. There is nothing any of us can do except pray for the women who get them, for the aborted fetus, and for the man who knocked up the girl to begin with. Or if you prefer you can move to another country.

I personally would never have an abortion, I love children and I think I'm a strong enough person, Mother and Christian to raise a child that was the result of a rape. Many can't, many won't. There is a human mentality that goes a long with many abortions seekers..."I don't want it, so you can't have it". Most abortions are a result of teen sex. These girls have the same mentality. In the old days these girls would take a year off school...go live with Aunt Minnie in another town. Keep up with their studies, have a baby, give it to a happy couple who couldn't have children, and then go back to their life. How they run to Planned Parenthood, have it sucked out and sleep with their boyfriends the next day.

If you talk to Planned Parenthood, they will tell you that less than 1% of all abortions are as a result of rape.

Answer 3

A 13 year old body is not physicaly ready to have a baby. It could put the 13 year old child in danger of her life. If the doctors determined that it would be safe for her to have the baby there is always adoption. Giving birth and then putting the child up for adoption is an option but the 13 year old will need counseling not just for the pregnancy, birthing process and the adoption but also for the rape.

Keeping the baby may be to difficult for the young girl. Her mother would really need to be the one to raise the child. Counseling would still be needed. I don't think this would work because the 13 year old is still a child herself and the baby would be a constant reminder of the rape. She is not old enough to accept the baby.

Ok now abortion. The 13 year old could get an abortion but this is also going to add to her psychological trauma. Again, counseling would be needed.

My point here is that no matter which way a person goes there is going to be problems that one needs to work through. It is truely up to the little girl, the parents and a counselers input of which situation they believe she can handle the best.

Abortion has nothing to do with a person believing that the fetus is not human. People may say that, but that is there way of trying to cope with what they have done or what they are going to do.

Having an abortion is psychology damaging to a person and really we ought to feel empathy for them. Now if they are having abortion after abortion as if it were a form of birth control then I have no empathy for those people. That is just wrong.

Answer 4

Cases like these happen. But are few and far between. These are the stories( not saying they are not real) that are used to fuel abortion advocates. Statistically speaking more women get abortions because they just don't want a baby. Baby doesn't fit in with lifestyle.
A fetus is human life.
What can we do about predators? What can we do with repeat sex offenders? No one ever talks about that. They won't let us castrate them because that would be inhumane. But we will allow innocent life to be destroyed. It's sad.

Answer 5

the only reason I would allow it in cases of rape and incest is that I have met women who have been raped and became pregnant - the torment they went through was umimaginable, and so I did not judge their decision to have the child aborted. How could I in that situation?

I'll be honest though, if it was my own 13 year old daughter like you described, I don't know how I would handle that situation - besides wanting to hunt down the person that did it.

If rape were punished more severely this wouldn't be such an issue.

Answer 6

Well , first she goes immediatly to a hospital. At that point she is cleaned out preventing all chance of conception. Are saying that after a rape a person waits countless days to seek treatment? Also , in the case of rape the woman did not willingly have sex as oppossed to careless sex. It must be weighed out. I understand your point, if a life is a life , it shouldnt matter if its a rape or incest. The problem is , you dont chose to get raped and incest is a crime in this current culture because of the blood line.

Answer 7

Imagine this...if you don't do the abortion, the father fights for custody or visitation rights after some time in prison and he has been "Reborn again" or something to get out on parole. Then your child gets to see this monster and remember that experience for the rest of her life. How Christian of you for not allowing a woman to have a choice.

Answer 8

I would not be in favor of an into term pregnancy. If my daughter was a victim like this I would hope she would come and tell me immediately so that
a: I could take her to the police for a rape test so we might be able to find the perpetrator
b:she could then decide if she wanted to take a morning after pill or carry the baby and keep it or adopt it out.

Answer 9

Then why must my daughter suffer?

The child is not wanted. This is the offspring of a cruel and vicious act and so my daughter is to be punished again and carry to term a baby she neither wanted or is emotionally ready to care for.

It is not the child, but the situation by which it has occured. Then my daughter is reduced to no more than a brood mare for the state.

Abortion is a tragedy, but we must be circumspect about what it means. It is those that use it for frivolous means ( and I do not use that word lightly) that throw the debate askew

Answer 10

I think I would still be against abortion in that case. As difficult as it would be for the daughter, I think in the long run it would be better for her emotionally to have gone through with having the baby and give it up for adoption, than to just kill it. Yes, I am one of those who believes that abortion is murder.
In my psych class, we had a chapter on human development, and we looked at development right from conception. I read so much information on how the fetus develops, and after that, there's no way that I could feel ok about someone having an abortion.

Answer 11

Unless the pregnancy was going to threaten my daughters life, my daughter would carry the child and I would adopt it. Even though it is a tragity that happend to a 13 year old, its still a gift from God, every life is a gift from God, I dont believe in the word fetus.