Posted on 12/04/2015 4:21:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
I’m happy for her. It’s difficult. It’s not the choice I would have recommended for someone I knew, unless she insisted. Then I would have backed off. But, IMHO, that’s not a place where the government should exhibit no flexibility and say, “you’ve been screwed, and shall carry to term.” That’s why I don’t like to hear it from Ted as an announced principle.
*POP* LOL
Well said.
Think of the Swedish Muslim invasion and rape epidemic. Is it necessary for those Swedish women to carry the seed of these oppressive invaders? I don’t think so, especially if its very early term.
But, in a sense, this is the nature/nurture issue writ large. I think there’s some nature at work here.
Someone has to speak for the innocent child. Protecting the life of its citizens is a natural duty for government.
>>>So Linda has been assigned by the GOPe to ‘take down’ Ted Cruz. Hilarious.
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I was just going to type your comment...I would only add ‘Linda at 0.0% in the last 3 national polls’....
I feel that the argument that concieveing a child of rape is a “daily reminder” is kind of dumb. As if killing a baby will, somehow, mitigate the pain that women who are raped feel. The rape still occurred. The psychological trauma still will exist...probably for years, if not until you die. Many women who have been raped and bore children as a result were pleased that they have done so. On the other hand, many women who have aborted children merely because of the potential “inconvience” have great emotional scars. Combining the emotional pain from being raped and then adding the pain of aborting your child doesn’t seem like it would fix anything. It would probably just exacerbate your problems. Just my two cents. I don’t think I can judge anyone who has to make that choice, but I feel that’s a pretty weak argument to make.
Rape is highly unlikely to result in pregnancy, but to be certain of preventing pregnancy, there is always “Plan B”, aka the morning-after pill.
I would never condone using Plan B on a routine basis, but in the case of rape, I doubt that one use will pose any long-term health effects.
In the event that a pregnancy results anyway, I would rather the woman be given caring support, not pressured to kill the baby. Yes, it is a baby conceived in rape, but it is also HER baby. And once a woman has an abortion, she changes physically and emotionally.
I know that the pro-abortion narrative is that whenever a woman conceives a child that is not planned and wanted, her reaction is to want to snuff the kid ASAP. However, that just is not true. Women are programmed biologically to want their kids and to feel motherly as soon as pregnancy occurs.
I agree with you. Abortion is not worth the risk. The dangers, both mental and physical,are probably more dangerous than carrying a child to term. Adoption is always an option.
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If some BLM type did that to my daughter, I’m with you. Not popular, but that’s the truth for me. Id be sure she got Plan B so fast it’d make your head spin. Besides, plan B is just a big dose of normal birth control.
Nothing immoral about the pill.
I suppose we all need to ask ourselves “Would my life be less precious to me if I had been conceived by an act of rape?” Until I thought more on the subject, I never thought about how a child is it’s mother’s child no matter how it is conceived. The rapist is the one who deserves punishment not the child nor the mother.
I worked with a man whose wife was raped (Different race, perp was jailed , wife gave birth), needless to say the child, father and grandfather are better men than me or you.
“To me, the father is irrelevant.”
Unfortunately, the courts don’t always see it that way. There is a very real possibility that in a few short years, “daddy” will get visitation. This is especially true if for one of 100 reasons he isn’t convicted.
Imagine the most foul illegal alien, some BLM type, or some other monster. And you have to interact with them for a lifetime.
No thanks.
“unless it is something like a tubal ligation, which even now, it appears that the medical community is working on a solution for.”
Bright.
A difficult question no doubt.
But I would council that compounding the trauma of rape with the trauma of abortion is not going to be the answer.
Living with rape is difficult but living with the fact that you ended the life of your child is only going to make things worse.
Linda who? Is he even at 1%?
I’m not trying to run a one man mini-pro-abortion thread here.
It’s a difficult decision.
But, I don’t think the government should aid and abet the rapist if the woman and the family think that the fruits of the rape should be reversed. That’s why I commented on it... because Ted is quoted as having brought it up. I agree with him on most issues, and admire his eloquence, but this is one place I don’t.
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