Christians: This is for you: If you are raped, and get pregnant, abortion?

Question

All right, people: The Pope is on an anti-abortion campaign, and apparently (correct me if I'm wrong) you adore the Pope. Now, I have a question: Do you agree with his anti-abortion campaign and thoughts? Think about it. I am not anti-Christian. I think is is a wonderful religion that doesn't support violence, and I appreciate that. I am just saying: Women, flash back (or forward) to when you were 15. Now, think about you get raped by some guy you don't even know. You are carrying his baby. Would you do that? Would you love a child and go through labor and all that for a child that isn't your own, because he/she wasn't conceived through normal relations? Because that is what your Pope is suggesting to do. And how would he even know? He's not a woman. He doesn't understand rape, and what it does to you. So how would he know?

Answer 1

I don't understand how anyone in their right mind would force a women who had been raped to have the child. It's just ridiculous. Does the woman have no rights and no say in the matter?

If your 14 year old daughter had this happen to her, would you still feel the same way? "I'm terribly sorry that this happened to you, honey, but guess what? You're going to be a mommy!"

Answer 2

I know a lady who was raped by a stranger over a year ago. She had her baby and kept her baby and named her Hope.She sees this baby as a gift from God even though She did not even know who her father was. She was jumped, in a bad neighborhood and pulled into the bushes AND RAPED.She already had a grown daughter,as she is in her late 30's. I am to old to have a baby. but I know that I would not have my have an abortion! I would take the morning after pill though.I do think early reporting and the morning after pill are the answer not killing innocent little babies! They are not yet born but sonograms have proven that at two month along in the pregnancy that baby has a heartbeat (Don't humans have heart's) the hick-ups,can open and close its little eyes,kick, and can suck its thumb. A human has a thumb! Most abortions are preformed at two months! Morning after pill YES! abortion NO! Not even if this were my Granddaughter! I have had this talk with her and she knows to come home and tell right away if this happens! She would be taken to the hospital right away! And be given the morning after pill. Oh! I'm not Catholic! But I am a Christian! Only Catholics adore the Pope. Christians adore Jesus!

Answer 3

truthfully in spite of what you wrote, i'm so against abortion it is not humorous. there are maximum of people in this international who can not have babies and pick too. i incredibly am a kind of people, I relaize that rape and a being pregnant on suited of that isn't the excellent concern although killing a baby isn't a sturdy theory the two. i understand how i might react because of the fact i've got been there. i did not have an abortion. Nor might I even now, in spite of ways the baby got here to be. If i will't love the baby somebody else can. Edit: I nonetheless have self belief a female has a call. although, it is not a call i will or might help. in the tip you may manage God and answer on your sin's basically as i could do besides. I have not have been given any difficulty with the different forms of intercourse nor do maximum different individuals. To make that form of generalize fact is extremely loss of expertise of people

Answer 4

Good question!

First, not all Christians follow the Pope. There are three major branches, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Protestants, only the first of which follows the pope.

To answer your question, we need to ask what abortion is. If a fetus is actually a human, then having an abortion is murder. So really, the question all comes back to whether a fetus is a human. If it is just a piece of tissue or some cells, then we should be free to have abortions. If, however, a fetus is a human, then the destruction of that body is murder.

So then we are left with the following question: is murder acceptable in the case of rape?

For example, if my 15 year old sister gets raped and decides to have the child. Then when the child is 2 months old she decides that it is too damaging to her life, to harmful emotionally, etc., is she free to kill the baby (infanticide)?

Hopefully we'd all say no. Even though rape is a terrible thing, we'd never condone murder.

So then, if abortion is in fact murder (and that is obviously a debated question), then we should not make exceptions for Rape.

Hope that answers your question,
mike

Answer 5

Although I have never been in this situation, I have thought about it and would keep and raise the child. Regardless of the father, that child would be mine and could never abort and probably not give it up for adoption. If I felt I could not love that child due to the circumstances involved, I would give the child up for adoption, so that he/she can be taken care of and given that love that they deserve, even if I cannot be the one to do it. Especiallty if this had happened before my marriage and I was unable to support the child. But, I really think that with counciling, I could see past these circumstances and raise the child myself. I would view that as my child, the way I do with my other three children. I could not seperate the sense of motherhood, even though I was raped. I am only stating what I believe is right for me. I have discussed this with my husband and he agrees with me and said he would raise that child as his own. We love our children, and even under this, could find a way to make it work. I can see how some women could never do this. If I could not ge past the father being my rapist, I would feel better knowing that my child was being loved and taken care of by a person who can do so through adoption. I would not abort a child under any circumstances, not rape or risking my own life. I would never be bold enough to tell someone what to do if this happened. This is my personal take on the subject, not a recommendation on what others should do. That is too personal for me to comment on.

Answer 6

I believe this would be the most difficult decision I would have to make, to bear the child of my rapist.
However, the baby is entirely innocent. I understand men have not fully understood women's feelings about rape. In talking with men, they usually tell me, their vision broadens when they have a daughter.
Some men only see that it is wrong if the woman is married. In other words they think it is a crime against her husband. I feel a woman has the right to kill a rape attempter, if she can and she has no other way to defend herself. This I feel is more true of a single, child bearing age woman who values her reputation. Let her try to explain that she is pregnant due to a rape and a lot of people who are nice to her face will be saying behind her back. "Oh yeah." Most women know that. Some say," well, the guy should be forced to marry her." But what they haven't taken into consideration that the woman is being forced to marry someone who is forced to marry her. No man wants his daughter in that kind of predicament.
If a woman is married and is raped and her husband cares for her, he will protect her with his marriage to her. That is if he is a real man.
However, I believe life begins at conception and we must always be on the side of protecting an innocent life.

Answer 7

The thing about that issue is that you don't truely know what you'll do until you get there ... at least the woman doesn't.

Remember back when there was a rise in AIDS among Catholic Married Women because the Pope was against using condoms. Their cheating spouses were bringing the STD home to the detriment of the family. Hubby could go to confessional. The wife, got to die and orphan the children with a clear conscience.

Activists in the Catholic Church helped bring that issue to light. It was a bold move considering the doctrine. Church Doctrine moves slowly to preserve its Traditions. God and Man can move within the twinkling of an eye. If each person is to answer to God ... then so be it. The Church cannot always have the final say ... unless it holds itself above God.

Many women have abortions that never tell anyone for fear of being ostracized. In the Church, women are still not equals.

Answer 8

I feel that even when it is rape and extremely traumatic for the girl to go through, that baby has a right to be born. It is not it's fought. The baby is an innocent victim as much as the mother. If the girl feels she can not keep it, then give it up for adoption. There are many infertile couples who would really love the opportunity to be parents. And by the way, he is not my pope. He is not the head of all Christianity. However, he is right when it comes to abortion. All Christians should feel that abortion is murder.

Answer 9

Do you understand what an abortion cando to someone? First that child the girl is carrying WOULD be part of her, like it or not.

Don't assume everyone who is raped and ends up pregnant wants an abortion. Rape is harsh enough to deal with on its own. An abortion can be emotionally devestating for some women, not to mention girls.

With the morning after pill, the chances of pregnancy are much smaller than they would have been previously BUT to be quite honest pregnancy from rape is not common.

ALSO the majority of women having abortions are not having them as a result of rape. It just stirs up emotions when people are trying to make a point.

By the way, I am pro-choice. I feel that abortion should be legal.

He is entitled to his opinion, and he is entitled to promote his opinion. Freedom.

Why hate him because you disagree. And from the tone of your question it sounds like you are feeling quite hostile. Just be glad you don't have to listen to him.

Answer 10

Yes this question is a tough pill to swallow, and my answer might be controversial. And I am sure most people won't agree with me. I have never been raped, but my sister was. I couldn't have fathomed what she had gone through, she told me about a couple years ago, when I was debating about abortion to my debate class, that had she had gotten pregnant from the rape, she would have kept the child, because half of the child was hers, and she firmly agreed that women should punish the guilty not the innocent.

I definately do believe it is hard for women to choose, and I would be in their shoes too, But my faith keeps me firm on this subject. God brings all of our bad that has happend and turns it to be a great good.

92% of women who have had abortions suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and go into depression. Some depressions result in suicide. So on top of the trauma of getting raped, a woman at some point in her life, will suffer from the guilt of aborting that child.

That is my belief and nobody else has to agree.

Answer 11

First off only catholics adore the pope.

2ndly each person is different. There are girls even this young that are secure in their Christian beliefs who would never consider an abortion. Even in this situation. An abortion would actually make her feel even worse than she already feels.

RAPE is a horrible atrocious act that murders a woman's spirit. It takes year and years to recover if ever.

Again each person is different. If a woman does decide to have an abortion for any reason... God will forgive her. I have know people who have had an abortion under normal condition. Each one recommends never to have an abortion.