This isn’t really a matter of opinion for you to agree or disagree with. This is a matter of fact. Womens’ bodies either shut down during rape, or they don’t. Since pregnancies occur from rapes ... clearly they often don’t.
He was factually wrong, and an idiot for even bringing it up. How women physiologically respond to rape is entirely irrelevant to the question he was asked.
His point was that abortion is wrong, even if the woman was raped. Why in the world does he need to add commentary about which rapes are legitimate, and how he thinks womens’ bodies respond when his answer is the same regardless of the circumstances of the pregnancy?
SnakeDoc
Excellent questions.
> His point was that abortion is wrong, even if the woman was raped.
Pregnancy is a result of fertilization. Why should it matter how the fertilization occurred in a discussion that is about willfully killing the baby?
Actually, the point about which rapes are *legitimate* is quite an important point. If you change the law and make abortion illegal except for rape and incest (or life of the mother), suddenly you have to decide if a rape really occurred (a legitimate rape). Everyone is crying about that point and thinking it means some rapes are not really rape or something (the left is leading here trying to make him seem like he doesn’t think rape is rape and clearly this is NOT what he meant). But, if the law stipulates this is when you may have an abortion but at no other time, they will have to have a way to decide if a rape actually occurred. Talk about a nightmare.
Thank you.
The whole episode was so senseless and needless. He didn’t need to say ANY of that. All he had to do was say he doen’t believe abortion is an approriate response to a rape induced pregnancy.
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