Abortion

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makingmusic476 said:

Rath said:

makingmusic476 said:
Pro-life through and through. Even in the case of rape, the baby could still be adopted.

That'd be well good if;

1) The child being adopted magically solved the emotional harm caused by carrying a giving birth to a child conceived through rape.

2) Adoption was a magical thing that meant that every unwanted child got a loving family and there weren't already hundreds of thousands of unwanted children up for adoption.

 

1. The majority of the emotional harm would stem from the actual raping, and the probability of guilt from the abortion would only make things worse.

2. See my post above.

Even from an anti abortion method, that's still forcing the burden of going through pregnancy and childbirth without any choice on her part. That I find unreasonable. That's basically on the same level (though smaller scale) as saying that America should give up it's personal rights because terrorists are killing people. By keeping our personal rights, we're killing people.
Essentially, saying that a woman who is pregnant by rape should carry to term no matter what is pretty much allowing her rapist to hold her hostage. "suffer the consequences of my actions, or else you'll kill this baby" except he's the one who set her up in this position. If you toss someone of a cliff, it's the ground that kills them, sure, but you are the one responsible for their death. Same thing here, the woman may choose to save the baby, but if she doesn't, the responsibility still falls on the rapist.

Of course, any abortion should still be done as early as possible before life and viability become a bigger issue.