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Pregnancy has a higher 'life risk' for a woman than non-pregnancy, on a day-to-day basis. With rape, the balance ought be possible such that if the termination option is not exercised within (perhaps) eight weeks from the time of the criminal act, then the child has the right to be born via early termination when the child is viable outside her body (and that time is getting lower and lower, even reaching now to the artifical placenta).

50 posted on 09/29/2003 11:23:50 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)

After 15 weeks, it's actually safer for the mother to carry to term than to have an intentional abortion. It's certainly safer for the child.

I don't agree that a victim of rape should kill her child. Just as it's wrong to kill people who fall into a hole you dig, it's wrong to kill someone else when you both fall into a hole that a third party dug, even if you could use their dead body as food or as a tool to get out of the hole.

Libertarians for Life addresses abortion in case of rape **and the mother's parental obligation**
http://www.l4l.org/library/aborrape.html