SuaveSocialist on 26 October 2016
| Bandorr said: There are several times an abortion should be allowed...and rape are two obvious ones. |
It is certainly obvious, but there is a problem if that is one of the requirements as a legal route for the procedure. If all other acceptable reasons are unavailable for whatever reason (child poses no threat to the mother, mother can afford the procedure, etc), the system incentivizes false claims or accusations of rape. In cases of actual sexual assault, since the accused is innocent until proven guilty, the act may not even be accurately determined as rape until well after the child is born.
Therein lies the paradox. Actual rape victims do not get their procedures while non-victims do. For that reason (for this particular argument anyways), I believe that no such requirement should exist.
