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The only difference between that and 'forcing her' to carry the child of an abusive husband or boyfriend is the rape. And the unborn child could care less how it was formed. And the circumstances of it's conception do not invalidate its life. The presents of a rape here seems to have you 'blinded by emotions'.

Hardly. The problem seems to be that I actually have concern for those who are already born. You, and others, have asked me why the child should be punished for the rapists' crimes. I ask: why should the woman be punished? A woman should not have to suffer because she has been raped. The experience itself is trauamtic enough, putting a gun against her head just increases the trauma.

202 posted on 02/22/2007 10:48:53 AM PST by LtdGovt ("Where government moves in, community retreats and civil society disintegrates" -Janice Rogers Brown)

Because pregnancy is temporary, abortion is permanent.

248 posted on 02/22/2007 11:19:00 AM PST by ichabod1 ("Liberals read Karl Marx. Conservatives UNDERSTAND Karl Marx." Ronald Reagan)

The problem seems to be that I actually have concern for those who are already born. You, and others, have asked me why the child should be punished for the rapists' crimes. I ask: why should the woman be punished? A woman should not have to suffer because she has been raped. The experience itself is traumatic enough, putting a gun against her head just increases the trauma.

I'm with those who believe that IF we are to declare abortion is murder... then it's murder in cases of rape too. The fetus is no less human.

I actually think women are more complex than you give us credit for. Rape is trauma, but it's not the only trauma, and any lingering nightmares of the experience will not be made worse because of pregnancy, nor flushed away because of an abortion. Not to be glib, but many women love and care for children every day in this country who were fathered by men (ex husbands, ex boyfriends, etc) they now hate. People are not one dimensional nor unable to separate a child from the event that caused the child.

259 posted on 02/22/2007 11:25:31 AM PST by HairOfTheDog

A woman should not have to suffer because she has been raped.

As you noted, she already HAS 'suffered'.

My complaint against the 'rape - incest' loophole is:

Where are all the MEN being JAILED for these 'crimes'?

No perp - no abortion.

415 posted on 02/23/2007 3:53:50 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)

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