Hunter states that The Right to Life Act “would legally define “personhood” as the moment of conception and, therefore, guarantee all constitutional rights and protections, including life, to the unborn without utilizing a constitutional amendment.”
So a girl or woman who was raped and impregnated has to carry to full term by law or face murder charges. No thanks. I could not ask that of any woman I cared about. That is exactly why the federal government has no business dealing with this issue.
It would seem that you are not well-informed about the details of the medical procedure of abortion. Rape is forcible entry. And even more so is a procured abortion. While I don’t care to post the details of the actual procedure of abortion, I can assure you that it is forcible entry more invasive and more extensive than rape. It also can cause irreparable physical damage at the site of entry and expulsion.
Carrying an unwanted pregnancy to full term and giving the child up for adoption is physically and emotionally far less damaging than abortion.
Also, the instances of impregnation by forcible rape is not nearly as common as is generally thought. There are definite medical explanations for this also.
To condemn to death an innocent life who is not responsible for its conception, but rather to murder it in a seek-and destroy mission is a barbaric method for solving the already traumatizing effect of rape.
It is amazing how much of the true facts and the reality of the abortion procedures are so carefully wrapped in secrecy from the general public, and how the same element applies to the psychological aftermath of abortion, regardless of how the pregnancy occurred. One of the best-kept secrets is the prevalence of post-abortion depression—one that the famous psychiatrist Dr. Conrad Baars wrote that he found to be difficult or almost impossible to treat and cure.
We are a throw-away society—a utilitarian culture when we offer up these innocent lives in sacrifice to the unbridled lust of those who rape.