There is compelling evidence that the victims of rape that become pregnant may suffer mental or even physical maladies from bearing that child to term. I understand this. But I advocate for the child as well.
I believe that the baby involved did not rape that woman. I believe that the responsibility for the child that resulted from rape is entirely that of the rapist, but there is no useful way at this time of forcing the rapist to carry the child to term and shoulder the responsibility of raising that child.
If there was a useful method for doing so I would campaign with no compunctions whatsoever to force the rapist to undergo a sex change and bear that child to term in the place of the victim of the rape. It is 100 percent that rapist’s responsibility.
Given that prophylactic termination is routinely given in the cases of rape and sexual assault at American hospitals (in the form of the Plan B morning after pill) this question is probably moot. In fact a number of states have passed laws *requiring* the introduction of the Plan B pill to women who have suffered sexual assault.
But, if you really want my opinion on the matter, the baby did not do anything wrong. The baby did not rape the mother. The baby does not bear any onus over what the rapist did.
There are wonderful and inspiring biographies available of strong women who raised children who were the product of rape and how joyous they are with their child and how happy those childrens’ lives have turned out to be.
This is entirely the crux of the matter. You fail to keep in mind that there were three people involved in the conception. The sperm donor, the egg donor (willing or unwilling), and the resulting child. If your logic and your reasoning doesn’t include the welfare and well being of the innocent child that didn’t ask to be conceived and had no consent to his or her implantation in the womb of the woman, your logic and your reasoning are incomplete.
I personally don’t believe that my beliefs should be forced upon other people through legislation. I fight online about these topics because there are people who are not telling the truth about a lot of topics and these people are deliberately misleading people for their own gain or to further som e ridiculous political agenda.
I studied propaganda in college and I pursue the concepts now as a hobby. Many of the ‘facts’ that are bitterly clung to by pro-choice advocates started off as propaganda that has taken on a life of its own. One good example is the clothes-hanger myth. Before abortions were legal, they were performed by doctors for pay in the US. Percentages of abortions actually conducted in a 'back alley’ with substandard equipment or a coat hanger were vanishingly small then and are vanishingly small now. But the image of some woman being poked with a bent clothes hanger by some snidely whiplash persona in a back alley is the big bogeyman of the abortion debate. It is a false doctrine, but it is clung to bitterly by people who want the legal right to kill children at a whim.
I have met women who aborted their children out of fear or because their parents or (God forbid) some asshole boyfriend forced them to. Some of these women never regretted that choice. Some did. Some wake up at night and think they hear a child’s voice in the next room. Some have even asked me what I thought the child would have looked like or whether I thought it would be a boy or a girl.
I would not pass a law forbidding people from pursuing abortion. I believe that people have the right to march their way into heaven or hell all on their own recognizance. I *WOULD* make damn sure they know the entire truth about the procedure they would undertake and I would make damn sure that the information they get does not *only* come from some company that makes a profit from instituting the sale of umbilical cords and body parts from the abortions they provide. I would also make sure to point out to people that poor and minority people are overwhelmingly the ones getting abortions, so there may be a hidden agenda in some political party telling you it is ok to kill that child….they may want to have you induce your own genocide or shrink the population of your particular demographic for some political purpose.
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