How many of you have been raped. Not date raped. VIOLENTLY raped. If not what makes you think that you can tell another woman to carry to term the child of a man that raped her and what gives you authority over her? Knowing somebody who is raped doesn't cut it.
2007-09-01 05:13:12 · 21 answers · asked by Christina returns 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Adorehim do you even know what date rape is? That's when somebody slips something in your drink to make you FAINT!
2007-09-01 12:02:45 · update #1
They don't care but they are also not 'pro-life'. If they were, you'd see "war stops lots of beating hearts" bumper stickers along side their silly abortion ones.
2007-09-01 05:19:17 · answer #1 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 7⤊ 4⤋
I *can't* tell a rape victim what to do with her unborn child. I do not presume to know how she feels.
However, my firm belief (and the scientific evidence backs this up) is that that baby is as much hers as the rapist's. And that baby didn't rape her. The baby is innocent. The baby can't help the fact that his/her biological father is a violent criminal. I'm not in the habit of blaming innocent children for the crimes of their fathers -- are you? So, you see, I cannot and will not condone a death sentence for the child of a rapist, simply because he/she is the child of a rapist.
It is a huge, huge, HUGE challenge for rape victims to carry the babies conceived in rape to term, but doing so lets THEM take command of the situation and turn an evil, evil act into something pure, good, holy and wonderful: the birth of an innocent child. Most rape victims choose to relinquish the baby conceived in rape for adoption, which is, of course, perfectly understandable and acceptable.
However, there are people like you who recoil in horror. There is immense pressure from health care workers, family and friends to abort the child. That's not fair to the woman! It's not fair to pressure her into a bloody, crampy, emotionally exhausting/distressing abortion when she's just experienced a violent sexual crime. She should receive FULL and COMPLETE and NON-JUDGEMENTAL support immediately following her rape, and that includes supporting her if she winds up pregnant (which, btw, is really very rare, less than 1% of the rapes result in pregnancy).
Abortion is another form of rape -- a woman is forced open, her womb is violated and her child (YES, it's her offspring, the science proves it!!!) is killed, dismembered and sucked/scraped out of her body, just weeks after she's been violated. How is that good? How is that helpful? It doesn't UNDO the rape -- it just adds another bloody dimension to it.
Frankly, I don't think women should have to go through that.
2007-09-01 06:01:57 · answer #2 · answered by sparki777 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Rape is obviously the worst thing that could be done to a woman. Having a child could disrupt her work and her life. But that doesn't change the fact that it's still a human being. You can't kill someone, especially a child, just because you didn't want to have it.
It's sick and horrible whenever a woman has to go through that, and she needs the help of her family and friends. She doesn't have to raise the child; she could put it up for adoption and still have done one of the most noble things any person could do. Rape is one of the worst evils there is, but even that doesn't mean that its result- a child- should be killed.
2007-09-01 05:44:06 · answer #3 · answered by Terial 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
You ask a great question. In some extreme cases, it would be hard to say that an abortion is the wrong thing. Would God forgive it based on the circumstances, I don't know. I don't assume to know his reasons and decisions. However, I do believe all life should have a chance to Live. If the mother does not want the child, then there is adoption. It is a choice the Mother will have to make and then live with for the rest of her life. If this has happened to you or someone you know, I will pray that the pain and scars will heal quickly so you can enjoy life. In the final result, it doesn't really matter what we believe or what we want, you're the one to make the decision and then stand before God to justify it. Thanks for the question, and have a Blessed day!
2007-09-01 05:24:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
This is one of the instances where I believe that abortion is appropriate. Having said that, there are some women who still will go ahead and carry the baby. I would suggest to them that it might be a good idea to find a loving, adoptive family to place the baby with, rather than raise a child conceived in violence. How horrible would that be for a woman to look at her child and think of the violence that he/she came from rather than the love?!?
2007-09-01 06:17:15 · answer #5 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, I have not been raped- It is horrible YES- by the way, how do you know that the date rape that gave life to my adopted child, was not violent? Just because the person knew the rapist does not make it pleasant!! I know that your question was addressed because of my answer- Rape is horrible, and also as I said, I can understand why someone who has been raped would consider abortion-
2007-09-01 05:20:58 · answer #6 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Honey, just so you know, I have come close to being raped. I was fortunate that he got scared off before he completed the action and he fully meant to be violent and to complete the act, so I think I can understand what a woman who has been raped goes through. My attempted rapist was never found and I hope he has gotten help before he harmed someone else.
And I had decided that if the rape had gone to completion and if I had gotten pregnant, I would have carried the pregnancy to completion. Why? Because giving destroyng that life would be to destroy the most innocent of the ones involved. It's not the fetus's fault.
Just so you know, my parents are hardline Fundamentalists and would have understood if I had decided to abort, and so would most Christians.
However, I see it as the one that gets punished in the course of the abortion is the fetus, the collection of cells that grows new life, or as I prefer to think of it, a human being.
I understand that there are very good reasons to retain Roe V Wade and I understand that not everyone can go through with a pregnancy. But for me, I cannot terminate that pregnancy, just because I hated the way the pregnancy occurred.
2007-09-01 05:29:08 · answer #7 · answered by Searcher 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
What is REALLY abhorrent is that abortion is justified based on the "pregnancy from rape" logic...
When, out of the BILLIONS of innocent babies that have been killed in the world, less than 0.01% were the result of rape...!
That's worse than the holocaust!
And MANY MORE abortions have been done in non-rape circumstances even after part of the body of a viable baby has entered the world through the vagina...and doctors insert instruments to suck the brain and very "life" out of these precious, harmelss, innocent babies...who easily would have survived outside the womb!
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No, I haven't been raped.
But being in the medical profession...I see do see these two things:
1) People who abort after getting raped...and later regret it, and live with guilt for the rest of their lives...
2) People who HAVE been raped...and keep the baby, and are completely overjoyed and blessed with their decision...
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God bless!
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2007-09-01 05:39:39 · answer #8 · answered by yachadhoo 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It is not the rape victim that I am opposed to having the abortion.
It's the "poor little rich girl" using it as a means of birth control.
Daddy will shell out the buck for every abortion she wishes to have.
By the way, isn't this the same girl who is a vegetarian because of how they torture and kill the animals that they try to serve her on a silver platter?
2007-09-01 05:25:58 · answer #9 · answered by Me 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
which leads me to another disturbing fact. The Christians who are ranting about abortion actually have no right to. The subject of abortion is not directly dealt with in the bible other than "thou shalt not kill". I believe that means do not murder someone for no reason. You can kill in self defense.......and actually the Jews did not consider a child a life until it could breathe on it's own. People get all freaked out about the little hands and fingers. The truth is..........our body is just a tent it is not the real us. We have a soul that lives in a body (a tent)
I think that Christians are into the whole political agenda because they feel powerless to do anything else. they need to get out and practice walking on water. That is where the real power and witness for Jesus exists. In the signs and wonders the Christians are afraid to try to walk in. I wish they would learn to do the works of Jesus and perform miracles or be quiet, go home and pray until they are ready to validate their faith with actions, such as walking on water. And you are right the mother has a free will and if she does believe in God she needs to stand before him for whatever she does or doesn't do. Other people should stay out of it.
2007-09-01 05:28:20 · answer #10 · answered by sisterzeal 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Even if we were to agree that an abortion would be allowable for victims of rape, statistics clearly demonstrate that less than 2% of all abortions in the U.S. were attributed to that (and/or incest). The rest were for convenience sake (birth control, financial, societal).
2007-09-01 05:24:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋