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.
There is only grey area when you don’t have a foundation for your morals. Yours are based on the situation and mine are not. First if something like that ever happened to my daughter, she would not kill the baby. She knows that a pregnancy is a life. She took my miscarriage almost as hard as I did. My children still talk and sometimes cry about their brother or sister that they lost. No I still do not know why you oppose abortion. You obviously don’t think it is murder or the taking of a human life. If you did then it would be murder for the raped woman just like it would be for an irresponisble mother. You aren’t being consistent and that is what I mean by hypocritical. If it is wrong for the irresponsible mother and the state can tell her what to do, then why isn’t it wrong for the raped mother and the state can’t tell her what to do? I think you have your emotions to wrapped up in this. There may be potential hazards in a difficult situation. That does not mean we allow people to do evil in the name of a way out.