Abortion and Rape

[iluvchicken23]

If you were raped, would you get an abortion or would you keep the baby?

 

[Gisella]

I’d give it up for adoption. I could never keep my rapist’s child.

 

[Corki]

I think I would give him/her to another family to be adopted. I am not in that situation, thank goodness, but I don’t think it would be so much because of the rapist but because if I kept the baby, there would be a chance he/she would find out the circumstances of his/her conception. Better to let the child start with a clean slate.

 

[1ke]

Abortion is intrinsically evil and can never be a choice in any situation.

Therefore, the choices available are parent or place for adoption. I do not know which of these two I would choose.

 

[kristie_m]

Well, I guess the short answer is that murdering an innocent doesn’t undo the rape. But as for parent or adoption…that’s a tough one.

 

[ALLGIRLS]

I would probably keep the baby, as opposed to placing him/her for adoption (abortion is NEVER an option). I got pregnant when I was 16 (not raped, just stupid), and planned on giving her up, but after she was born I fell in love w/ her and couldn’t do it. I have 4 others now (one still in the womb), and at each birth I’ve felt the same way. Yeah, I would loathe and despise the biological father, but the “mommy” hormones would probably overtake that. And it’s not just the rapist’s child, but my child also, as well as my children’s sibling. So yeah, he/she’d have to stay .

The big question for me would be, would my husband be ok w/ this? He would never be for abortion, but would he accept the child as his own?

In Christ,

Ellen

 

[st_lucy]

Well being a product of rape I should hope I would never give my child my mother so generously didn’t give me.

 

[ReginaHenderson]

There is really no choice in the matter, seeing as abortion is murder no matter what the circumstances of the child’s conception are. So I would of course carry the child to term. I am not sure wither I would put the child up for adoption or not. At this point there is a strong change that I would give the child up for adoption to a good Catholic family, preferably part of my extended family ,seeing as I am only seventeen and not married.

Pax Christi Vobiscum,
Regina Henderson.

 

[stringbeanduck]

Adoption or keeping the child is the what all of the women here should do. A child should never pay the price for what happened to the women.

 

[vern_humphrey]

A child of rape is as much a victim of that crime as the mother. Aborting the child is sentencing a** victim** to death.

 

[true_believer]

Much like the others have said, abortion wouldn’t even be an option. But as to whether I kept the child or gave it up for adoption would really depend on the circumstances. If I wasn’t married, or financially secure at all, I would probably give the baby up for adoption. But if my finances were stable enough to care for a child and I had the support system to do so, then I would probably raise the child myself.