[D1X1E]

I don't think that the woman should be punished more severely than the rapist: by being forced to carry a child, conceived in violence, who looks like her rapist.

Thats a tough one. On the surface I would tend to agree with you. Even though she could have the baby adopted and never see the child, it would still be an agony to go through a pregnancy like that. I just have a problem though with saying "its ok to kill a baby if it makes it easier on the mother". In effect, that is what most abortions are, a convenience, no matter the circumstances so that makes this exception not really an exception at all.

[AntiGovernment]

Thats a tough one. On the surface I would tend to agree with you. Even though she could have the baby adopted and never see the child, it would still be an agony to go through a pregnancy like that. I just have a problem though with saying "its ok to kill a baby if it makes it easier on the mother". In effect, that is what most abortions are, a convenience, no matter the circumstances so that makes this exception not really an exception at all.

But there is a difference, let's not forget that! A women who has been raped, did not choose to get pregnant. A woman who gets pregnant by negligence or whatever, could have prevented it.