Sorry, but if you saw yesterday's big Life thread, I still see a basic contradiction. It concerned a young girl who became pregnant after being gang raped. She decided to have the baby and raise it alone. Every Lifer on the thread praised her as a hero. If volunteering to bear a rape child made yesterday's single mother a hero, why does volunteering to conceive from a donor make today's single m other "evil" and "selfish"?
Hellspawn? Good grief, the child is not the one who committed the crime - the child is innocent. Why do you think one of the innocent parties should be executed?
Most conservatives believe that children inherit the physical and mental characteristics of their parents. Free choice of a partner, followed by conception with love, is nature's - or God's, if you prefer - plan for maximizing the probability that a couple will stay together to raise a child to maturity. Even though the woman in today's discussion decided to raise her child alone, she at least exercised free choice in picking a sperm donor representing the characteristics she wanted. Because rape denies a woman that opportunity, most rape victims choose not to have a child who may grow up as a "bad seed." Usually, this choice is made by taking a morning-after pill, so it isn't even an abortion. Conception does not take place at all.
:::sigh::: I explained the difference already. I don't know whether you truly can't see the difference or are just pretending, so I will try again.
The difference is that one woman is being unselfish in choosing to give a child life who was unintentionally conceived. The other is selfishly choosing to purposefully conceive a child knowing she is bringing the child into a situation where one of his/her most basic needs will not be met - having a daddy.
Most conservatives believe that children inherit the physical and mental characteristics of their parents.
Yes, they inherit eye color, hair color, height, perhaps a generic level of intelligence, etc. Children learn how to choose behavior from their parents - it isn't a genetic, driving, uncontrollable force within them that causes them to do things. (That belief that behavior is uncontrollable is decidedly liberal, not conservative).
Even though the woman in today's discussion decided to raise her child alone, she at least exercised free choice in picking a sperm donor representing the characteristics she wanted.
Yes, blonde, blue-eyed little toys.
Because rape denies a woman that opportunity, most rape victims choose not to have a child who may grow up as a "bad seed."
If they truly believe that this will happen, it's only because the ignorant have convinced them (who are equally ignorant) that it will occur.
By the way, they don't have to raise the child. They can give the child up for adoption. Executing one of the innocent parties is not the answer - not even for the woman who was raped.