Most people would not vote to outlaw abortion in all cases, including rape. I think abortion is evil. I would even advise my daughter to bear the child if she was raped. It would be the right thing to do. However, I don’t think I have a right to force her to keep a child conceived by rape.
I know many FReepers are absolutely dead set against abortion in all circumstances, and they believe government should protect every child at the moment of conception. But it’s wrong, in my opinion, to demonize everyone who agonizes over the extreme cases, like rape. At least have the honesty to admit administering an injection immediately after a rape is not the exact same circumstance as aborting a 7 month old fetus (like Ron Paul was pointing out).
Fortunately, my family has never faced this particular dilemma. I’d also vote for any law that outlawed abortion except in cases of rape or incest. That would be a far, far cry better than what we have now, and I wouldn’t sit the vote out because the law wasn’t pure enough.
100% agree.
You must follow from that into the realm of law where you have NO ABORTION but with a RAPE EXCEPTION.
With no rape, there's no abortion. if there's a claim of rape, but the accusation is false, there's still no abortion. If the rape can be proved, then you execute the rapist and the kid, right?
Now, what happens if this takes so long the baby is born, but you do find out the guy was a rapist. Do you then execute the baby as well as the rapist?
What if it languishes for years ~ due to faulty evidence, can we track down the offspring once they reach adulthood and skrag them?
What are your cutoff points. What are your details. How do you deal with reality?
You can treat these as rhetorical questions, but I'd think you'd have to agree that the "rape exception" is a rather difficult exception to administer.
that's pretty much how I feel , I don't agree with abortion for convenience sake but I do see a exception in cases like rape or incest ,or to save the mothers life