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Originally Posted by ronaldo
A few years ago I called the local pro-life office and asked them about rape. They took the same stance as you. For a group that plays the compassion card so freely, I find it one of the most callous stances possible.
I'm sorry, but I just can't get past looking at a raped 16 year old girl (quite frankly ANY raped woman) and having to watch her stomach grow for the next 9 months and then go through the birth. If the rape wasn't bad enough to give her nightmares for the rest of her life, now pro-lifers are basically telling her to put off her therapy for 9 months. (That's not to mention a husband having to watch it and relive HIS anger, or explaining to potential siblings why if Mommy is pregnant aren't we keeping the baby?)
You're right it wasn't the baby's fault, but the woman shouldn't be put through further mental stress for something she didn't do either.
For the record, I'm pro-choice, but I also don't believe abortions should be used as the fall back position they are so constantly today either.
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I totally understand that too. It just seems very bizarre to be able to find a reason to kill a human for essentially any reason other than self-defense or clear danger it presents for your own life.
For example, would you have wanted to be aborted if you were the product of a rape because of the stress it caused for the person carrying you in her womb? You wouldn't have a chance at living, eating ice cream, meeting that special girl, going to the park, enjoying at all the wonders of the world, because 9 months was an inconvenience (abliet major inconvenience) to somebody - not of your choice or her choice. But isn't the fact still that now there are two lives to think about and that ending one for convenience is crude.