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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.

Parse it as you will. If I am reading correctly, your position is that a woman who is negligent and becomes pregnant should be punished for her behavior by being forced to carry the child and not allowed to have an abortion. The woman who conceives through no action or responsibility of her own, indeed through an act of violence which she may never overcome, should be allowed to rid herself of additonal pain by being allowed to murder the child. In this world there is no guarantee of freedom from pain and horror even those things not of our own making. You have yet to address the pain of the murdered baby. Nor am I convinced that the woman would not be adding to her own pain by living forever with the knowledge that she murdered an innocent. I truly am not trying to be argumentative on this though I guess I am doing so. Perhaps I am hoping you have a magic answer to some painful questions. Thanks for the post and some though provoking discussion.