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.
I had a bad experience in my life which I won’t go into detail. I wound up having an abortion, which I bitterly regret to this day. I would infinitely rather that I carried the child with a very bad beginning (conception) to term and given him or her up for adoption, than know that I killed a human being, a baby.
I know from bitter, bitter personal experience that carrying a child - unwanted, unasked for, no actual (real) or perhaps known father - for nine months, is absolutely to be preferred than carrying the weight of having caused an innocent child to die, for 40 years.