[Dan Middleton]

Lots of nominally pro-life people include a rape exception in their position. Logically, this is only compounding a tragedy and punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty, but it's easy to seem insensitive making that argument. This article, on the other hand, communicates it compassionately and powerfully.

[Marie2]

A woman who has been raped is already a victim. I think forcible rape should be a death penalty crime. For the rapist.

To expect or encourage her to abort the baby after a rape is to push her into being a perpetrator.

Abortion does not “unrape” or heal us.

For her to give life to an innocent child (that is half hers) and either care for it or give it to a loving couple is difficult but also healing. It gives her back the power in a terrible situation, and helps her to be a genuine force for good. The few women who actually carry through on this will attest to it.

Not to mention that the baby is a completely innocent party and has done nothing to deserve execution. I have heard several times that Oprah Winfrey is the product of a forcible rape. I don’t have any evidence for it though.

[GVnana]

Powerful story.

[OpeEdMunkey]

Wow. That’s commitment.

[murron]

National Right to Life always pushed for exceptions.

[Julia H.]

How can anti-abortionists be so insensitive? Everyone knows unceremoniously dismembering a helpless baby for the mother's convenience is the utmost act of sensitivity. /s

If being raped justified killing an unborn child, why doesn't it justify killing a newborn? Did your human rights develop somewhere in your mother's cervix, waiting to be picked up on your way out of the womb?

[hinckley buzzard]

Having been active in the national prolife movement over the last twenty years or so, I can verify that for many women, abortion following rape is "a second rape."

Liberals reveal their hostile anti-life attitude when they saddle the injured woman with the burden of killing her own child. What a despicable act. And perpetrated in the name of "reproductive rights."

[fieldmarshaldj]

This is an extremely touchy area. I am pro-life, but I simply couldn’t in good conscience demand, by force of law, a woman who is the victim of rape or incest carry the pregnancy to term. If we tried to return to pre-Roe laws without that clause, no state in the country would be able to enact pro-life legislation to curtail the bulk of abortions done in the name of “convenience.”

[ReagansShinyHair]

I posted this on the duplicate thread for this article, so I’ll repost it here.

Just some interesting history in Britain about NOT blaming the baby of a rape.

I think the ancient Saxon(?) code said that if a woman had a baby with a foreigner, the baby and descendants could not hold land until after 8(?) generations. But, if the woman had been raped by a foreigner and had the baby, the baby was treated as a full citizen. I find it interesting that a zillion years ago people didn’t blame the baby, but nowadays the baby is likely to be killed!

[investigateworld]

Yes, I'm totally pro-life, but agree the victim should have the option. But if they can find the LOVE in their hearts, more power to them!