Why Is A Baby of Rape Less Innocent Than Other Abortion Victims?

Question

My last question got a lot of answers that granted exception to the "murder" of "babies" conceived in rape.
I am just curious why rape babies are less innocent than other babies?
Because I don't get it.

Answer 1

I've said the same thing before. It's either murder or it isn't. If abortion is to be illegal, rape and incest should not be an exception.

The reason is politics. The anti-abortionists could never get the majority of the country to swallow it without the candy coating of "except for rape or incest."

Answer 2

Aborting rape babies isn't different than abortion non-rape babies because of the baby. It's different because of the mother. If a baby was conceived through consensual sex, and the mother doesn't want it, then you can tell her, "Hey, you should've thought of that before you had sex." But that argument doesn't apply to babies conceived through rape. And that's why anti-abortion people make an exception for rape.

Answer 3

Generally, in the case of non rape its considered a termination which is due the mother's and father's irresponsibility and could of or should of been avoided. In the case of rape, the mother is a victim, and without fault of her own has concieved. Shes not to blame and so some argue she should be given the choice, as the baby has been forced on her. Its nothing to do with the unborn being less or more innocent, its just a dilema of free choice.

Answer 4

Well, why are the illegitimate children any less innocent then? Though out the history the "bastard" children - those of unwed or raped mothers - have been rejected, ridiculed, refused to be accepted in community, refused to be baptized, their mothers were cast out of society (villages), sometimes even stoned to death.
And this is by the VERY same people that nowadays claim that the kids out of marriage or of raped mothers are equally innocent when it comes to abortion (but not equally innocent when it comes to accepting them as an individual to live in a certain society...)
DOUBLE CRITERIA, anybody?!?
Face it, people who say stuff like that are narrow-minded sheep, blinded by a made up code of rules written in a book of fairy tales by a tribe of bronze age desert goatherds.

Edit:
zorrro857: tell me something. Can you trully, honestly say that in the year 2007 you can take seriously and follow literally a book that states: "...the owner of the woman"?
Do you keep slaves because it's in the bible? Do you stone unfaithful women because the bible says it's the right thing to do?

Answer 5

how bout this i knew a girl who was 13 her father raped her and got her pregnant and her mother made her have the baby now what is the point of that ???if someone is raped they shouldn't be made to have that child so they will raise the child hatin it , resenting it and a daily reminder of the rape.. or the child goes into an orphanage and has no parents at all and grows up neglected and feelin unwanted OR the mother has the baby and then one day snaps becuz the child is reminding her constantly of some brutal incident and she kills this one year old [or whatever age] no way that should happen

Answer 6

You're right - rape babies aren't less innocent than other babies. Babies don't ask to get conceived. They don't choose what circumstances they want to be brought about by. Whether it is two people who love each other and want to have a child, a couple who produces a child through in vitro fertilization, or a child produced through peer pressure, or a rape - the child isn't the one who decides. A child conceived through rape should be loved more, not less, because of it.

Answer 7

Funny how we don't put ourselves in the place of the woman first, before the fetus. Think rape, isn't enough?

Think someone should have there noses rub in it for another 9 months. Think being pregnant is a piece of cake? Being pregnant because someone used you and violated you and leaving you responsible for a life?

The woman should be the concern. She is not a baby machine. To think so is crass and heartless. You have no idea the pain of rape, much less the pain of having your life altered so drastically.

They call them day after drugs.

It's called birth control. It's called realistic attitudes about sex and teenagers. Standing in judgement and dictating to the world to abstain isn't working...is it?

To say to a woman who has been raped, one word about keeping that fetus is emotional abuse. Nothing short of that.

Answer 8

Well, how 'bout this. Next time you're raped and you wind up pregnant, we'll let you decide how you feel about it. Meanwhile, why don't you mind your own damned business.

Even as a guy, I'm at least empathetic enough to understand that to force a woman to bear the child of a man who assaulted her is (or could be) almost worse than the rape itself.

Against this I know there are always a thousand women ready to step forward who have been in this situation, carried the child to term, and couldn't disagree with me more. For them I have the sincerest respect as regards their courage and integrity, and I defend their decision wholeheartedly; but I refuse to allow that ALL women should be required to do as they've done. Every situation is different, and it should be up to the woman, certainly in this instance, to make her own decision with her doctor, psychologist, etc, as to what is in her best interest.

Answer 9

It is more because of the psychological state it puts the woman carrying the fetus in. A rape is a violent crime in which all power and control is taken from the victim and to become pregnant as a result and being forced to carry that fetus for nine months makes the woman psychologically relive that horrific crime constantly. It is psychological torture to expect that.

At least, for me, it has nothing to do with the fetus itself rather than the violence of the crime committed against the woman.

Answer 10

They aren't. They had no part in the rape and are just as worthy of having a life as planned or non-rape babies. No person (little or young as they may be) deserves to be murdered, period.

If they don't want the baby, have it adopted. There are uncountable couples out there waiting for a baby.