this is to all the pro lifers i just wondered if a girl was raped and got pregnant should she have an abortion

Question

and if you remeber the time befor roe versus wade when women had to go to underground clincs for abortions with unqualified doctors and dirty tools many women died during those times and you pro lifers want to bring back those horible times you make me sick with your disrespect of womens rights you are no better than dirty rats

Answer 1

Many in the pro-life community are willing to make an exception for rape victims -- because she never consented (even implicitly or by carelessness) to being pregnant.

As to the issue of whether making abortions illegal would stop them -- decades of studies have shown that is not the case. Making abortion illegal just makes abortion more risky and more dangerous -- but statistically, it has no effect on the actual number that get performed.

Answer 2

I am a pro lifer but at the same time i have done a bioethics course and looked at it from the other point of view and this sort of scenario poses a real dilemma.

Having spoken to a diehard pro-lifer (Christian) their view was that it wasnt the babies fault, or the foetuses fault so why should it have to suffer; rather a better option would be to have the baby and perhaps put it up for adoption, and who knows the mother may develop a bond as she nurtures the foetus.

In terms of religiously, i know that in Islam their is a 'loophole' if you like with abortion. This is because you have to consider when does life begin and in islam this is considered to be some weeks after conception. So in this case if you check a few weeks after the rape and you are pregnant then by aborting the foetus you are not killing a life but merely a cluster of cells, this applies to the jewish faith as well as they believe the foetus were 'as though it were like water' in the womb and not a life.

but i would say that abortion should be legal and available in certain cases, not when a 17 year old tart wants to satisfy herself and then kill the foetus or embryo as though it didnt hold any significance.

These days women have clinics available to them and the days of underground clinics have gone, certainly in the UK and most developed countries, although i did see a documnetary where they are still performed in little shanty towns in the phillipines.

Answer 3

Actually, i don't want to bring back those times. Making abortion illegal is only the last step. What i'd like is for women to have better choices and better support so that less women will feel they have no option but to mutilate themselves.

In the situation you describe above, i don't believe another act of violence is the solution to the first. All this would lead to is a double trauma for the girl, and the baby is still a baby no matter how it was conceived. What the girl would need is advice on how to cope with the situation in a truly pro-female way.

To echo your words, you "make me sick" with your disrespect for life.

Answer 4

I'd have to disagree with any pro-choice person simply because even if the woman didn't consent, she'd be consenting to end the life of another. So what's worse, bearing a child for 9 nine months and giving birth, then responsibly finding good adoptive parents for the kid? Or murder?

There's always the option of making the right choice.

Answer 5

Ignoring the question of whether it is the woman's right to choose in the first place, I don't see why the life created as the result of a rape would be held in any less regard than that resulting from more favorable circumstances. I am not saying I am anti-abortion, just that if one were to say it is morally wrong to kill an unborn child, I would think it would be immoral in all cases.

Answer 6

I believe, the exception back in that, before time, pregnancy by rape was granted by the court.
It is the victim's right to choose to keep a rape baby, it can be put up for adoption.
From the Christan view, a baby is God's gift, ours not to question the reasoning, however, if the mother selects abortion, in the future, if she asks, He will forgive.
Just as now, He will forgive those, who have legal abortions and later seek forgiveness.
Women's rights, doesn't that mean also, being responsible for your actions and accepting the consequences?
If not, than the law It seems to me, just perpetuates the term "whore."
I shall remain a dirty rat, and serve God.

Answer 7

I am pro choice all the way. Your body your choice. Let the pro lifers judge you. I doubt God will be pleased that they decided to cast the first stone. No one knows what its like until they make the choice to do it. If I was raped I would have an abortion. No qualms about it. I am sure I will get a lot of negative remarks but I dont care! What happens if they make it illegal? Are we going to lose our right to vote next. I can see it: Women are to emotional to make these kinds of decisions on their own. Lets do it for them.

Answer 8

Should she have one? I think that would be up to her.

Answer 9

What about that child? That child didn't choose to be concieved, but it was, should we disregard that life?