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.
Madam, I really don’t think you do see it, I think you’re so focused on the fetus, whether it be a clump of cells at conception, or at 9 months - you refuse to distinguish the difference, which makes it even harder to have a logical and rational discussion here.
You mean well, I know you do, but unfortunately, there are some grey areas that occur in situations that have no easy solutions. You believe you have the definitive solution, and it’s the only one you can allow yourself to subscribe to, no matter the potential hazards (for which you cannot even allow your mind to entertain). This is one time when even strident pro-lifers have to weigh both and ask if one life outweighs another in importance, and the answer at this point of the game, is yes, and that is the life of the young woman’s. Most women, like most men, aren’t saints, they have to make unpleasant decisions that lean into that grey area.
Perhaps if you were confronted with a horrible situation, your teenage daughter attacked and raped by a stranger, or even worse, raped and impregnated by your husband, and those things happen in this country every day - I had a family close to mine for which incest was going on, and only by the grace of God that none of the victims ended up pregnant, but they were permanently traumatized. How would you deal with such a situation with your own child ? What if your daughter begged you to consent to terminate in the aftermath of conception, conception by your own husband ? Would you order her to carry the product of an unholy coupling ? Could you not see how just as wrong that would be ?
But, I disagree it is hypocritical, the entire thing is simply unfortunate and very sad, and we just keep going in circles, and the language you claim I use is just as loaded on your end. Plus, you already know the answer to your question posed to me, so I guess we’re all going to have to find each other reprehensible for all our respective positions on this subject.