Anti-abortionists: aren't you being deceitful when you make exceptions for rape and incest?

Question

Considering how long it can take the courts to convict someone of rape and/or incest (not counting the appeals), wouldn't a woman/girl made pregnant by those means have already delivered by the time the perpetrator is convicted?

After all, you're not going to want to let anyone have an abortion just because she says she was raped. And while there may be a lot of evidence of a rape, it isn't officially a rape until a court of law declares it was.

And by that time, the pregnancy has come to term and no abortion is possible.

So when you offer rape and incest as exceptions, aren't you chuckling up your sleeve because you know no one will get that exception because no one can be convicted of rape and/or incest in time for an aborton to occur?

lilmissykato: you are talking of a violent rape. Rape can also occur under the influence of drugs (such as date rape drugs). And Incest need not be violent either, nor even detected in time (since it may not be until the child shows the pregnancy that the problem is discovered).

Answer 1

Personally, I do not make a rape/incest exception. Abortion is still wrong in those circumstances because it's killing an innocent human life...basically punishing that innocent human being for the crimes of his/her biological father.

The problem is that our society does not properly care for the rape/incest victims and if they should turn up pregnant, everybody recoils in horror and starts pressuring the poor girl/woman into abortion. This is just wrong.

In fact, legalized abortion is typically used to HIDE incest. I knew a woman whose step-father raped her for years and years. Her mother took her for 4 abortions. Had abortion been illegal, her mother wouldn't have had the nerve, her pregnancy would have been obvious, and perhaps somebody would have rescued her from the hell she was living in.

Answer 2

The rape and incest clause is mainly political. It's not my position.

Those situations are hard, but killing a baby won't unrape you. The baby is part of you, too. People don't ask for cancer, but they get it and have to deal with it without killing anyone. The baby shouldn't pay for the crime.

Ectopic pregnancy would be the only exception I see since the baby cannot come to term in the Fallopian tube and the mother will die if you "wait and see".

I am pro choice. The choice is where you decide to have sex. The vast majority of abortions are done for birth control rather than rape and incest, I'd be willing to bet.

RU486 is a bit hyocritical as well. You know you could lose a pregnancy. It is done with the intent to flush out an embryo, otherwise you wouldn't be using it. I am against it.

Answer 3

Actually, I am totally ant-abortionnisme. The only exception I make when I talk about rape or incest, I say that then they should give the child for adoption if they don't want to keep it, never would I advicate abortion.

There are so many women out there that would love to have a family but can't, and would gladly take a baby like this for their own... No murder, no killing, just getting everyone in a good place, including the victime of rape or incest.

Answer 4

Most of them don't want exceptions for rape or incest. But they are willing to allow an abortion if the woman's life is threatened. Funny, huh? Considering most women who have difficulty in the pregnancy are usually in their second or third trimester. They are okay with an abortion at 5 months to save the woman's life yet they will protest if a woman has an abortion at 5 weeks. Pro-lifers are funny.

Answer 5

Having had a daughter who went through a rape that resulted in a pregnancy, it is very easy to tell within a matter of minutes that a woman has been raped. And there are currently forms of abortion (such as RU486) which can be offered immediately to prevent the egg from implanting itself. So your statement about having to convince the rapist first has no basis in fact or current practice.

My daughter choose to keep her child, reasoning that he had done nothing wrong to deserve to be killed. The rapist had already damaged her life, he wasn't going to get the baby also. Raising her son has been a healing for her emotions, and the joy of her life. They added a "daddy" about two years ago. (By the way, "daddy" is also a survivor from his mother being raped).

Answer 6

I am Pro Life not Anti Abortion.

That has nothing to do with it...abortion has become a form of birth control, and MILLIONS of babies are lost simply because they are not "convenient"...

I have seen my daughter's heart beat just weeks after conception. That is a life! I have felt her kick at not even 5 months along. she responded to sound and moved at a time some would be willing to take her life!

I have know a lot of woman in my life (including my own mother) who have had an abortion...and all of them have suffered and will suffer for the rest of their lives with the guilt of it.

So get off your high horse...we have the right to have our opinions just as much as you do!

Answer 7

Actually, it takes about three days for a doctor to say someone was raped. When a female is raped she does not losen up and there is almost always a physical sign of it.

And personally, if the mothers life is at risk I dont care if she is 9 months in- i forget were but it does say in the bible that if the mothers life is at risk to 'cut the child and take it out'

Answer 8

some dont but most agree with the "if the life of the mother is in jeapordy". i think that's total bullshit! hyporcrites i say!!! since they are so violent against pro-choicers, they should elt the mother die to prove a point? what exactly are they saying? well we can "kill" the kid just as long as the mtoher is at risk, that kind of "murder" God will understand??? LMAO!

to Sparky before abortions became legal, women were still doing it, so the mother would ahve found a way to make her have one.

Answer 9

I don't, the baby is innocent either way.

Answer 10

shot down in the first response. ouch!