I think she is smiling.
Ping!
So far, all I can tell is Akin will not back down from principle when politics threaten them.
What percentage of the voters would vote for a candidate who used her talking points?
This didn’t exactly go in the direction I thought it would. The LifeNews should have tipped me off.
The article was quite informative.
I had no idea that only 15 to 25% of women who become pregnant as a result of a rape, decide to terminate the pregnancy. Honestly, I would have guessed the other way around. I’m glad I was wrong.
Thanks for bringing the article to our attention.
Good article. I think she’s right. Instead of focusing on whether rape accounts will go up because of the availability of abortion for rape. Focus on the rights of the unborn.
One of my coworkers told me today that she is here because her mother was raped. She is a lovely, lovely person.
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Thank you for sharing this. I was thinking about this today (before I read about her) and wondered why we do not do more to support women who have become pregnant via rape to have their babies and to make them feel that they are doing something heroic and possibly healing for themselves as well as their child. Much of how a person feels about something has to do with how those around them feel about it and what they convey to them. God bless every woman who goes thru this. And I hate that the left uses it as a political issue.
But is the answer to forbid abortion, or discourage it.
This is ridiculous! The woman knows if she is pregnant, or not before she's raped, otherwise all that's in place is an embryo, or not far from it. The decision belongs to the woman alone. If she is raped everyone else, includng the law, has no business sticking their nose in this whatsoever.
She makes a compelling case. I will admit to oscillating on this issue. I genuinely don’t know.
I understand that there is no logic in allowing a baby to be terminated because he was conceived in rape. It is not his fault. I also have a real personal problem condemning a woman to a life-changing pregnancy and 18-years of child-rearing that she truly had absolutely no option to refuse. It also is not her fault.
Unfortunately, life presents situations with absolutely no good answer. This is one of them. It is possible that “choice” is the best of two awful options.
Most abortions do not fall into this category, so we can reduce them by 99% by banning them in all other cases, so this need not be the focus of the debate anyway.
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I think she is smiling.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting it.
Great article! And along the lines of this author...if you take the position that abortion should be legal for rape, you put at disadvantage all prosecution of ANY rape. If “rape” then becomes ‘the go-to excuse’ to have an abortion, police, knowing that less than 1% of all abortions are factually due to rape will not prosecute any claims of rape. Let me tell you that the left would turn this on a dime to our disadvantage. That is why this writer is right. As an RN, I understand anyone having difficulty encouraging someone who was raped NOT to have an abortion. However, there are a lot of young people out there today who are the products of rape, and the stories I’ve read from them are heartwarming. The baby is still half the mother’s bloodline. Evil is not inherent. It can be overcome with love.
Has Whoopie asked if it was really a rape-rape?
Bump her words.
If her mother had listened to Akin, she may have been more likely to ABORT...out of shame in feeling that she was COMPLICIT in her (own) rape.
AKIN MUST GO.
Not sure where you two are at on this. Thought it interesting.
This Rebecca Kiessling absolutely nailed it. Akin slipped up in expressing his position and the drive-by media is having a field day with it, that’s all that is going on here.
I am disappointed in Romney’s reaction to this.
I totally love this little lady. I read of her yesterday.
Legally, not all “rape is rape”. Forced rape is rape. Statuatory rape is mostly an illegality based on state law of consent.