Pro-life: abortion, rape cases, how would that be handled?

Question

Someone just asked a question asking Pro-lifers if they would be OK with a law that restricted abortion to rape, incest and emergency health related situations. Some Pro-life people say that would be acceptable. My question is, how should rape cases be handled? Honestly, don't you think that suddenly the number of 'rapes' would go sky high?? What's to stop someone from saying they were raped just so they could get the abortion? Would they need proof? Would it have to be a reported rape? So many people are afraid to report rapes or can't deal with the situation for many reasons. Should they be denied the abortion unless there was a police report? Would false reports start happening all the time? Could innocent guys start getting arrested too? How on earth would that work?

I'm pro-choice but I'd like to hear from the Pro-lifers who would be OK with abortion for rape victims. I want to know how you think that should work.

TY: I hope you weren't referring to me when you said "all you self righteous rich pro-lifers"...

Let the courts decide what? I was interested in what people thought about it already, not the court system.

TY: Yeah, I know. I only said that because I already mentioned I was pro-choice at the bottom of my question to avoid getting responses from angry pro-choice people! I just hear a lot of semi-Pro-lifers saying that abortion may be OK in extreme circumstances and I don't understand how that would work at all, so I wanted to hear from someone who felt they had an answer for that mess since I think it's obvious there would be a lot of NEW problems with restrictions.

Answer 1

One of the many reasons to be pro-choice is this very problem. And there's the fact that women will get abortions anyhow, how ever they can. If a woman has to have an unwanted child, that child will grow up unloved and resented, and because unwanted children tend to have poverty striken families, they are more likely to turn to crime and rob all you self righteous rich pro-lifers.

Edit: I don't know if I'm referring to you, because I don't know you. I don't know the details of your beliefs. Mostly I'm referring to the ones who are pro-life without any compassion for the situation the poor are in, but still don't want sex ed taught or condoms handed out. Nor do they want to adopt those unwanted children. But you can be pro-life and still understand that outlawing abortions would be a bad thing for this country, and be pro-life by educating people about proper birth control, and improving the situation of the poor so that their choice wouldn't be abortion or abject poverty. If they had enough money, they would be more likely to have the child.

Answer 2

I am a pro-lifer who thinks abortions are bad and should be avoided at all costs. Having said that - I have never understood why abortion would be considered an acceptable exception for abortion. It's not the kid's fault that his father is a piece of garbage.

Answer 3

it doesn't matter if pro this or con that,

what matters the most is right and wrong.

like the other guy said, only the courts can judge over the matter.

and good lawyers that can guide us aswells.

Answer 4

let the courts decide on a case by case basis

Answer 5

abortion is a crime if someone can go to jail for murder or manslaughter because a woman's fetus died in a car accident then it's premeditated murder to go in to a doctors office and having an abortion.
THAT'S TRUE PEOPLE, THAT'S DAMN TRUE

Answer 6

merry christmas

Answer 7

you can`t change the rules...situational ethics are not acceptable..killing is killing is killing...there is no other option.