if you get raped and your pregnet should u get an abortion?

Answer 1

i can't answer that, because that has not happened to me. i don't think anyone can judge that choice unless they are faced with it themselves. it's easy for others to judge, but even they don't know what they would do until it happens to them.

Answer 2

I think it is a decision that can only be made by the victim. Personally, that child would be 1/2 of the father and I couldn't bring a child like that into the world. If I found out when I was like 3 months along I couldn't abort, but if it was immediately after I would take the morning after pill. It is a hard decision and I wouldn't look down on someone no matter what they choose.

Answer 3

I really feel that is a personal question. Every woman is different and would react differently to that situation. I am not a proponent of abortion by any means. I'm very much against it, however, I do believe that in the case of rape, the woman did not make the choice to have sex and should have the choice to have an abortion if she wants. It is not her fault she got pregnant in the first place. If she personally decides that after she was raped she should get an abortion, then I think that it her right.

I do not think that abortion is acceptable for people who willingly had sex.

However, if I were raped and got pregnant that way, I would probably have an abortion, because it was not my choice to have sex.

Answer 4

Do NOT listen to people telling whomever may be pregnant from this to not get an abortion, it is completely their choice and she should not let people put her down or make her feel bad for making her own choice. She (or you whoever it is) should do what they think is right, right now it's about that persons health. If my young daughter or friend or whomever were to get raped, I would do what is best for her. Obviously all these people who say to not get an abortion have never seen women who have been raped. Women who get raped are usually very emotionally and physically unstable, and if they are emotionally unstable then what makes people think that they can still go through with something like that and not cause any damage to the baby? But I agree with some of the previous posts to get checked for stds and such. Good luck and whatever is chosen do not let people put that person down for it.

Answer 5

We can't tell you if you should or not. Everyone is different. Many women are raped, go on to have the baby.. and even raise it. I myself would probably get an abortion. I wouldn't want to carry the child of a man that did that to me... and even adoption - i'd have to still carry the pregnancy to term...and what if the child ever came looking for me someday asking WHY I put it up for adoption? I couldn't handle it, but some can... like I said.. no real "right" answer to this, everyone is different.

Answer 6

No, it's never right to kill an innocent human being. Would you kill a one-year-old because her father was a rapist? If not, why is the child in the womb fair game? Is she less worthy of life than the rest of us because of the circumstances of her conception? Should children be punished with death for the crime of their fathers?

Furthermore, abortion only increases the grief and trauma of a woman who has been raped. Abortion does not erase the fact of the rape, but only causes the mother to become the aggressor, hurting another innocent victim the way she was hurt. Rape is bad; murder is worse. The knowledge of what she has done to her child will haunt her long after she has healed from the rape. Studies have shown that the majority of women who abort a child conceived in rape regret it, while none of the mothers who choose to give birth do (see links below).

For more on this topic, including personal stories from women who conceived children in rape, see:

http://www.afterabortion.info/Victims/index.htm
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/focusmagazine/sohl/A000000103.cfm
http://www.dakotavoice.com/200611/Guest/20061101_GR.html
http://www.afterabortion.info/PAR/V2/n1/RAPESUM.htm
http://www.deathroe.com/Pro-life_Answers/Answers.cfm?ID=31

For more information on abortion, including videos and photos of first trimester abortions, visit http://Abort73.com

Answer 7

I honestly still could not...Now I might very well put the baby up for adoption but i would not abort the baby because i got raped,the baby is still apart of you and growing off of you,not the man that did this...the baby shouldnt have to suffer through abortion..i think adoption would be the best thing for the child...

Answer 8

I personally would. I hate when people try to tell victims that they should have the child and if they can't stand to love it and look at it that they should give it up for adoption. What if the kid were to come around 18 years later just to remind a woman of her past? Some people don't think about that.

Answer 9

There is no excuse for abortion inculding rape. There is a thing called the morning after pill that a hospital has to give you if you request it which prevents you from getting pregnant.

I had a friend raped at 14 and she kept her baby, she did not get the morning after pill because she was knocked out and did not wake up for a few days, they did not think she was raped just assaulted and robbed but when she awoke she said she was raped and by the time that happened it was to late to give her the morning after pill.

Her son is now like 5 and she loves him to death, the guy who raped her was caught a few months later and is now serving like 10 years.

When you get raped common sense tells you to get the morning after pill and if you don't and you find out your pregnant and you get an abortion it makes you no better then any other girl who killed her baby.

Answer 10

That is a 100% personal decision. You must keep in mind that this child can grow up to look like the person who raped you. If you can still love your child if you see that person in them then you should consider keeping it and loving it no matter what.