Madam, you and I agree a lot more than we disagree. I have been attacked over the years for being a “militant pro-lifer” by the pro-aborts (including my own grandmother who would berate me for being a Conservative pro-lifer), and now I’m being attacked in this thread as if I’m the representative from Planned Barrenhood (a front for genocide if there ever was one). I have explained to you repeatedly my position in this thread, and you and the other individual persist on grotesquely perverting my stance. You’re throwing arguments at me that I agree with over 90% of the time - but said argument stops when it comes to a rape victim at the time of the crime, that’s it. You want to argue it’s wrong, you can, that’s your right, and I defend your right to do so, and your argument has validity, but you also have no right, nor do I, nor the state, to dictate to a crime victim in the immediate aftermath that she will be FORCED to carry the produce of a rapist to term. That, madam, is reprehensible beyond description.
The line has to be drawn here, or we cease to live in a free society. My position on this point is Libertarian, and only this point, otherwise your positions are essentially correct. But I will not, in good conscience, tell a crime victim that she will continue to be punished for something she didn’t do and that a clump of cells (and I’m sorry, but at that point within 24 hours, that it is what it is - it’s not yet a viable baby by any stretch of the imagination) has more rights than she does. Totalitarianism in the pursuit of morality is immoral. The fact that you, as a woman, cannot see my argument (you don’t have to agree with it, I’m not asking you to, only to comprehend and understand it and why - to see that I am merely focused on one singular point about a rape victim’s rights) is extraordinarily disturbing.
I speak for those who are pro-lifers who see that exception as an unfortunate - very unfortunate - but necessary one. That’s it. But for those, like the subject of this thread, who choose life, who try to make something good come from evil, well, they have my enormous respect and admiration (I’d say without sarcasm that they are practically saints for doing so). But it is wholly up to them to make the free and conscious decision to do so when forced with such a terrible situation, and nobody else.
I see your point clearly. It is hypocritical. You say abortion should only be allowed in cases of rape. Again, I ask the question, Why do you oppose abortion? It is a simple question, yet you have failed to answer it. If you oppose abortion because it is wrong, what makes it right in this particular case? What makes THIS particular “clump of cells” less deserving of the right to life than the “clump of cells” made by two people who consented to sex? You keep calling my position reprehensible. I find your position reprehensible. You keep calling a human baby nothing more than sperm, spawn , clumps of cells. Truthseeker is right, you are using all the abortion advocates arguments. Why cant those arguments be used for elective abortions? You don’t not seem to realize the seriousness of abortion. It is the taking of life that you think should be allowed because a woman is raped. I think she and the baby should be protected from more violence not SUBJECTED to more violence because some people think that abortion will cure her of the rape. I can tell you this for certain, murdering her own baby will haunt her for a lifetime. Carrying a baby to term has the possibility to heal her fractured soul. This article is the PERFECT example of that.