Those who defend abortion often try to bring up the “hard cases.” These include the involvement of rape, incest, or danger to the life of the mother.
This article will focus on pregnancies that are the result of rape.
Far from being callous towards victims of rape, those of us who are pro-life actually have every bit as much concern for the life and well-being of the pregnant mother as we do for the preborn child.
Everyone can agree that rape is a terrible act of aggression.
While the abortion industry has put great effort into creating the illusion that abortion can help make the pain go away, the reality is that it just makes the situation even worse.
If A harms B, that does not entitle B to harm C.
Again, this is not to say that the mother isn’t in a terrible situation.
What we are arguing is that legalized homicide of an innocent human being is not an ethical response to this terrible situation.
In fact, the supreme court has ruled that legalized homicide is not an ethical response to the rapist himself, by prohibiting the use of the death penalty against rape [1].
So if killing the rapist is not seen as justified than how can killing his son or daughter be seen as justified?
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References
[1] U.S. Supreme Court. (1977). “Coker vs. Georgia.” FindLaw, 11 Jun 1986. Web. 29 Jun 1977. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=476&invol=747
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The only reason why you say that is because you have never been raped. I was raped and I got pregnant. I had my abortion when I was 6 weeks along. I could not care for a baby that I did not even want, that I could not afford to take care of. I was only 17 years old, no job, nothing. I feel that people who say stuff like this has never experienced it. And I feel as though people who do not understand should not even speak like they do. It was not alive when I got the abortion. No heartbeat. Nothing. I did not kill a human. If anything I saved it from the hard life they were going to go through. So please, before you talk about something so important make sure you understand how it feels, put yourself in a young 17 year old girls shoes who had just got raped by a man that she did not even know and then got pregnant with no money, no job, no clue on how to raise a child. Put yourself in my shoes. Granted my abortion upset me but it was the best thing to do.