Askel is not a typical woman. She usually takes the man's side in an argument and is also a Catholic. So seeing as you posed a hypothetical situation to another poster, I'll pose one to you. Do you believe that if a young teenage girl were raped in Harlem by a gang of scumbags, she should still be forced to go through with the pregnancy?
She may not be a woman you are used to, but that is not a flattering comment about you (insert expletive here).
Absolutely, she is to carry the child to term, despite the tragic circumstances.
First of all, if the raped woman is married and/or sexually active, she doesn't necessarily know that the pregnancy was the product of a rape.
I know a white woman who was assaulted and raped by a black man in a parking garage, who became pregnant. She and her husband struggled over whether to get an abortionn, and after much anguishing and prayer, decided not to, but rather to give birth and then place the child for adoption.
When she gave birth they realized that it wasn't the "product" (abhorrent term) of the rapist, but was their own child: she and her husband had apparently conceived, unbeknownst to them, sometime in the two weeks prior to the rape. Of course they did not go through with the adoption plan: they were just thankful they hadn't inadvertently dismembered the child begotten in the security of their wedded love.
Which brings up my second point: if the woman doesn't feel she can raise the child herself, she can place it in the loving arms of an adoptive couple who will.
And my third point: these conceived childen are not "the rapist's" any more than they are "ours," in the sense of property that we can dispose of as we see fit. They belong to themselves. They belong to the future. They belong, if you like, to God. Do you really believe that women (or men) who are really, really emotionally upset are therefore at liberty to kill their children?
That is what any girl or woman pregnant by rape should know. She has already been traumatized by a despicable act of violence of which she was a victim. If we respect her, we will not set her up for a second act of violence in which she would be the perpetrator: an act immeasurably more damaging to her emotional, intellectual and moral integrity.