If not, how can you justify your beliefs? What do you expect the mother to do, also? Have you ever thought about how YOU would feel in that situation?
2006-11-25 04:07:50 · 28 answers · asked by lady_s_hazy 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Even with adoption as a choice, surely the mother is going to have a really tough time carrying the baby to full time and giving birth? All that unnecessary pain and knowing she has the product of her rape growing inside her...
2006-11-25 04:19:15 · update #1
This is a straw-man argument by pro-choicers to keep abortion legal.
The problem with that question is this: The vast majority of abortions are not for rape or incest. They are done for convenience's sake.
Actual percentage of U.S. abortions in "hard cases" are estimated as follows: in cases of rape or incest, 0.3%; in cases of risk to maternal health or life, 1%; and in cases of fetal abnormality, 0.5%. About 98% of abortions in the United States are elective, including socio-economic reasons or for birth control. This includes about 25% for primarily economic reasons.
But, since you asked, to be truly pro-life, you would prohibit all abortions. The point of being pro-life is to protect life, especially that life that is the most helpless, and has no voice in society except ours.
Incest and rape, while tragic, do not justify the taking of a human life. Adopting the baby out is a better "choice" for everyone.
2006-11-25 04:16:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 1⤋
Well if our stance is the sanctity of life, then why would we agree to let a woman have an abortion to preserve her from embarrassment that she was the victim of a crime? How exactly would an abortion in that case be helpful to? The criminal? The woman's reputation? The woman's emotions? Well one of my friends was raped and got pregnant and she decided to turn that baby into a blessing instead of a tragedy. In the least, the woman can always give the baby up for adoption. But why abort it if there is no severe health risks? I'd only tolerate abortions if the mother might not survive the childbearing, but if there are no complications then you can either turn that baby into a blessing, or give it up to adoption. You don't simply kill it to make things more convenient.
2006-11-25 04:19:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
i might say that those each and every person is termed "professional-existence" yet via definition are no longer, 'professional-existence'. Do you spot what I mean? people who make exceptions are no longer professional-lifers...they're professional-determination i think. Abortion is a ethical difficulty for the girl who's pregnant, and the medical doctors who carry out the abortions. the choice to end a being pregnant willingly via abortion is plotted and deliberate via the mum and the well being care provider executing the youngster. professional existence is a confusing call, this is all...and so a approaches as people who make exceptions, I accept as true with you. once you are going to ok somewhat of abortion you could besides purely open the gates and make it criminal. no be counted what reason, in case you abort a toddler you're killing a human. ordinary and easy.
2016-10-17 12:37:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If abortion is murder and all children are innocent then it should be murder to have an abortion under any cirumstanes. I have heard this arguement tht abortion is okay in cases of rape and incest and anyone who argues it must surely agree that abortion is either good or evil it can not be both God does not deem one life more valuable than another so the arguement is hypocritical.
2006-11-25 04:22:14 · answer #4 · answered by djmantx 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Let's see ... do I agree that an innocent little boy or girl should be brutally murdered because their father was a violent criminal? No. I don't. Do I agree that such a brutal murder is justified to save the mother of the child from a difficult situation that she did not choose to be in? No. I don't. "Difficult" may be a temporary source of stress, but "DEAD" is permanent. Besides, the trauma inflicted on a woman by abortion is at least as severe as that inflicted upon her by rape. Why double her pain? Why, in addition to the fact of having been brutalized by a man, hand her the lifelong guilt of having brutalized and murdered a helpless child? Support programs for mothers who have chosen abortion encounter so many women who have lived for years in intense pain and guilt, some of them suicidal, over the decsion they made to kill their child. If you know a woman who is a victim of the bloodthirsty abortion industry, direct her to this group. It may save her life:
http://www.rachelsvineyard.org/aboutus/ourstory.htm
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2006-11-25 05:55:41 · answer #5 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Abortion is not good anytime. Why kill the innocent child? He/she did not rape. He/she did not do anything wrong to pay. I expect the Mother to have the child and perhaps give it to a loving couple for adoption if she did not wish to keep it.
2006-11-25 04:16:35 · answer #6 · answered by Midge 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
No, I do not think that abortion is ever ok unless both the mother and the child are in danger of death. I justify that belief by knowing that, having studied biology, life begins at conception and that it is wrong to kill people. I expect the mother to carry her child/ren to full term and then give them up for adoption, or keep them if she wants. I have thought about it a lot, especially since I used to be pro-choice, but I am sticking to my pro-life guns.
2006-11-25 04:12:40 · answer #7 · answered by Rat 7 · 7⤊ 2⤋
How is rape OR incest the child's fault? Should we punish the child for the sins of the parents?
And since my own mother was the product of a rape, please don't ask me to condone the murder of the child to make the woman 'feel better' about herself. That's just stupid. Two wrongs never make a right.
2006-11-25 04:19:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
Every life has meaning. Turn the question around, how can you justify killing simply because you do not like the circumstance by which that life was created.
Makes for an interesting argument... soon people with brown skin would no longer be acceptable and murdered "aborted" for the greater good of others. People with birth defects are a drain on society and should be murdered "aborted" for the greater good of others.
Who lives and dies is not my decision, not yours and not a "mothers choice". Abortion is simply another symptom of our throw-away society where life means nothing.
2006-11-25 04:13:42 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
I am totally with ROCKY. I was thinking to answer along the same lines but Rocky said it best. If I could vote You'd get my vote as best answer, Rocky!
Hopefully you don't mind, so you don't have to search what the answer was here it is again:
"You do not have the right to take the life of the child who might have been planted in the mother through unholy acts. Fight in life.Rear the child. The child is not to be blamed and condemned. No sinners get away with their crimes.God punishes them even if the court of law leaves them free.Have faith in the higher power and pray for support and solace. Lead a pure holy life which is filled with good deeds which attract the Lord's grace and he will take you through this misery of the world.
God bless..."
2006-11-25 04:27:10 · answer #10 · answered by LoveJesus 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋