What Should A Girl Do If She Had A Baby Because She Was Raped? Abort It Or Take It?

[vern_humphrey]

The law does not, even now, say the woman can do ‘whatever she wants’. Currently the state and/or government law does NOT state, “Her body–she can choose what she wants to do with it”. . .ask anybody who has been arrested for illegal drug taking, or prostitution, or mutilation, or public nudity/lewd behavior, etc.

But abortion is the exception to that rule.

And some may pretend that the law does not say “abortion on demand” – but all attempts to limit abortion somehow wind up being stuck down by the courts.

 

[mapleoak]

The law does not, even now, say the woman can do ‘whatever she wants’. Currently the state and/or government law does NOT state, “Her body–she can choose what she wants to do with it”. . .ask anybody who has been arrested for illegal drug taking, or prostitution, or mutilation, or public nudity/lewd behavior, etc.

That is just one of the reasons why the very justification used in support of abortion “it’s my body” is so ridiculous. It’s like saying I can go and kill my neighbor and say “it’s my body, I can have it do whatever I want”.

 

[mikew262]

Are you saying that “doing whatever she wants” is absolute. So I can do whatever I so desire as well?

Think about what absolute means before answering.

I’m not saying anything, except thats the way it is, “legal” wise. Until the law is changed, it’s legal to get an abortion. Obviously, whether it is right morally is an entirely different issue.

 

[mikew262]

Legal does not necessarily equal moral.

– Mark L. Chance.

No argument.

 

[vern_humphrey]

I’m not saying anything, except thats the way it is, “legal” wise. Until the law is changed, it’s legal to get an abortion. Obviously, whether it is right morally is an entirely different issue.

I believe that it was Edmund Burke who said, “All that is necessary for evil to trimuph is for good men to do nothing.”

You are right that until the law is changed, it will be legal to get an abortion. And until the law is changed, many will see that as a mark of societal approval for abortion. And the law will not be changed without a lot of good men and women working to change it.

 

[Delphinus85]

Abortion is never an option. Why punish the child (and the mother a second time) but killing an innocent life? There are options for that mother. Adoption being one excellent way.

 

[Delphinus85]

She should be free to do whatever she wants, without any further outside coercion. Keep it or abort it, her call and hers alone.

too bad the unborn child doesn’t get a say whether or not it deserves to live. One life NEVER belongs to another to do with as they please. Be it an african american in the 19th century, or an unborn child in the 21st.

 

[Delphinus85]

i was just pondering so many times if a girl got pregnant because she was raped… i know that many of this kind of situation would have a great impact to the life of the “mother” or victim. and what if she was not ready to have the baby and yet she was bound of their faith?

It seems to me that statements such as these point to a problem or a disconnect in the prolife rally. We seem to say on a broader sense that if you take the responsibility of sex, you take the responsibility of a child. No matter what. Then prochoice throws out “what about rape!” then we talk about the innocence of the child.

I am not sure who did it, but somewhere along the way the sweetest gift of all, a child, has become a “punishment” for sex. I don’t know where it happened, or how, but it works too well with prochoice. They are calling newborn innocent human beings a punishment for women who want to enjoy their sexuality, and how unfair it is for these women, and how they therefore have the right to throw off a chil;d the way a deadbeat dad would.

I think more than anything else we need to focus on the innocence of the child above and beyond anything else (and I believe I am indeed preaching to the choir on these forums on this topic) rather than a child as “responsibility for sex.”

As for another statement I saw “Her choice, and hers alone” that is ridiculous. Whether it was rape or not, a child isn’t a choice. A child is the reality. The woman has a choice on who raises that child, not whether or not it exists. It exists, the “decision” was made. It seems that statements like these “her choice alone” is an attempt for irresponsible men to get away from pregnancy and children altogether. They make pregnancy a “woman’s issue” and they don’t have to worry about a thing as soon as the deed is done. It seems that making women alone in this issue is a good way to further rip the truth about children and sex apart.