Dear Black Ghost:
I want to be sure that I have understood you correctly. Please forgive me if I have not, and accept my apologies if it takes me a while to understand.
Are you really saying that you think that pro-lifers are working to establish the legalization of rape in America?
How could this be? A thing is either legal or illegal. It is so made by degree of law.
To be found in possession of a malt beverage if you are under the age of 21 is illegal. The fact that many under-21s DO go around and drink malt beverages DOES NOT MAKE THAT A LEGAL ACTION. And that means that even if your local cop saw you and turned a “blind eye” that he somehow “legalizes underage drinking”–does it? Of course not.
Now. Suppose that some babies are conceived in an act of rape. Not ALL babies are conceived of in acts of rape, but sadly some are. That is not the fault of the mother, OR the baby (there is a baby, remember, and the baby is not the instigator of the rape). It is the fault of the father. Since when do we put a child to death for the illegal actions of the FATHER??
Again. Even if a child were conceived in an act of rape, that child deserves to live just as much as a child conceived in an act of love. If you are going with the “rape” criteria, then what about the many children conceived in acts of “love” OUTSIDE A MARRIAGE? This is not “rape”, is it? It is not. And what of those children conceived in acts of “indifference” or “carelessness”? Since when do we have a criteria or hierarchy that allows children to be conceived in circumstances involving parental sin (fornication, adultery) but suddenly “draws the line” at the sin of rape?
Further, and this is most important. . .
Prolife people are NOT involved in trying to “legalize” rape in that they beg that the life of a child conceived in rape be spared. The man who so victimizes the innocent woman AND child should be punished, as should any rapist, whether the act results in conception OR NOT.
So, just HOW do you argue that trying to save the life of the child (there are plenty of people who are willing to adopt children, and I am one of them and hope to be able to do so in the next couple of years). . .is somehow “legalizing rape?”
I would REALLY like to know. Is trying to save an innocent child somehow making the rape action legal? HOW?? I just cannot see where you make that leap. It does not seem logical.