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To: jumpstart1981
Rape would be a reminder to the mother of the despicable horrible person who did that to her every day, and as the child ages, has the potential to look like her rapist. Why wouldn't these states make these exceptions?

Let me answer your question with a question: Is the potential to look like your rapist a death penalty offense? Because that's what abortion is.

Rape and incest are crimes. Go after the perpetrator, and don't make the innocent by-product pay the price.

(With that being said, I'd agree to laws that allow rape & incest abortions, if the pregnant woman filed formal charges against the supposed perp. I'd also offer state assistance to help her if she decided to keep her pregnancy. I

As ugly as rape-and-incest allowances for abortion are, I'd be for such waivers if for no other reason than they are a step up from the morass we find ourselves in : sex-selection abortions, partial-birth abortions, you name it....)

74 posted on 08/02/2006 4:00:10 PM PDT by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity.)
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