Your imagery is powerful. Ominous men in black, forcing rape victims to give birth under threat of prison. I can see them now, standing with the hand cuffs, saying "You WILL have that child!"
Scary. It exists only in the imagination, but imagination can be powerful.
I can also see something else. I see babies. I can see their sensitive skin burned by salt. Skin so sensitive it is like one big open wound. And I can see them drowning in saline.
I can see other babies shrinking, trying to escape a sharp blade. Screaming. Silently.
You can see it too. It's happened millions of times. They even have it on video. You don't even need an imagination. Just a conscience.
sarcasm duly noted...
But I guess I am on the horns of a moral dilema.
I do not think abortion is moral.
And yet I do not think that so-called conservatives should be rushing out to cede authority over our lives to the state, especially in an issue as sensitive as this one.
When it comes to consenting adults, there is absolutely no "excuse" for abortion. None. Yet with rape and incest I actually do see a grey area.Call me a hypocrite, but I'm being as honest as possible.
I also know that there are actually few rapes that result in pregnancy, yet I would still feel more comfortable having the victim of a rape make the decision with regard to the pregnancy, instead of Janet Reno.
Remember, the state that can force a woman to have a child concieved in a violent rape....
could just as easily become the state that could force a woman to have an abortion of a child concieved in love...