But forcing that situation on the victim of a brutal crime is also evil and will cause her further injury. To deny this is being willfully stupid.
Woman that have abortions are often plagued with terrible guilt, remorse and depression for decades. They know in their hearts “I killed my baby”. That causes infinitely more injury than carrying a child for nine months. If the woman wants to give the baby up for adoption at least she will know “My baby is alive somewhere” instead of “I killed my baby”. You mention the rape victim, by advocating abortion for rape, you now have 2 victims.
There are indeed two victims, little jeremiah, and they were both victimized by the rapist.
But in forcing by law a woman to bear the child of a rapist, you may well have more than one perpetrator at that point.
My position is pro what makes the victim feel whole again, and not what I tell her makes her feel whole again.
I want to believe that a large number of women would not choose to abort, but rather to deliver and adopt. It’s hard for me to imagine that someone would choose to raise the child of their rapist, but I expect that that has happened in the past, and will happen again.
But I cannot deny the victim the choice of abortion in this case. I can’t do that in good conscience. It’s not like I want babies ot be aborted. What I want is for men not to rape women, but alas...
She should have the opportunity to give her consent or to not give her consent, because that was denied her by a violent criminal, and that is a wrong that must be righted before anything else can proceed.