Could you, in good conscience, tell a young woman who has been raped (including even if by her own father) that she must, by penalty of law, be forced to carry the produce of an evil act to term ? I couldn’t. Mind you, I’m not talking about to the point where the fetus is viable, but in the brief period following the act. We can argue that the fetus is innocent, that goes without question, but this has legitimate claim to be a personal violation of the woman and psychological punishment (yes, again, you could argue she would suffer it even going through with the abortion, too).
I hate being put in the position of sounding like the pro-abort brigades, for whom most have no sense of morality when it comes to the unborn, but I’d rather see us successfully outlaw abortions of convenience (of which may be as high or higher than 90% of all those performed), than go the all-or-nothing route which sees abortion remain 100% legal. No state, no matter how Conservative, will approve of restrictions that include forcing the woman to carry even with rape and incest. You have to know that. It’s the difference between women engaged in risky behavior that should know better vs. those that are innocent of engaging in questionable or risky behavior. I’ll add, too, I knew someone who came perilously close to being a victim of incest, and had she been forceably impregnated, if forced by the state to carry, she would’ve committed suicide. No amount of “counseling” would’ve stopped her.
But you haven’t dealt with what she said.
What if every woman who wants one claim they were raped. What do you do? How do you prove weeks or months after the fact that she wasn’t?
I am sorry but one evil act doesn’t justify another evil act. How can violence upon your child undo violence that you suffered yourself? All you are doing by abortion is making the mother a killer. Abortion is murder. I believe in taking back any ground we can in the matter of abortion but the ultimate goal should be that abortion is outlawed. A baby is a baby no matter how they came to be. Either we believe that in all cases or we don’t believe it at all. Abortion is also another act of violence against the mother. The “produce of an evil act” you describe is A BABY! Again even all of that aside, there would convienently be ALOT more reported cases of rape if rape is the only way you can get an abortion. And that would be a FURTHER injustice on the women that have truly been raped.
How do we justify offing the baby when we aren’t even willing to give the death penalty to the rapist?