The problem with these issues is the FACT that we are at once in a dilemma where the right to stay alive, for the gestating new human being is to be weighed against the right to stay alive of the female in whose body the alive new human is growing to birth age. A physician of moral character, when presented with a forced pregnancy will be considering the fate of two patients caught in a single problem, if the female is seeking an abortion. Any human with good moral character will try to sift the problem down to can both beings be saved since both are alive human beings! If not, then the treating physician will present the viable options to the older patient. The variables will include how far from birth age is the unborn human; how much risk is there in continuing the pregnancy to birth; can the unborn be brought into the air world without killing either being; is there a point not yet reached when the alive unborn will be to some degree aware? Things like that are part of the reasoning process.
Someday in the not distant future the attending physician will be able to stop the pregnancy without endangering the mother and then shifting life support to artifical means AT ANY stage in gestation after imp[lantation. An ectopic pregnancy will be ended and the alive little one transferred to an artifical womb for the remainder of his or her gestational period.
The Japanese had kept a goat fetus alive to term for more than seventeen weeks, and that was a decade ago or more. What we should be focused upon is how do we save both alive humans reagrdless of how the younger came into to existence. Arguing over exceptions is the devils way to argue you into submission to the wrong direction. It is a hallmark of leftist/progressive reasoning.
I’m not about to get involved in a generalized discussion on abortion, a topic that frankly does not much interest me, except in a passing manner. I think in most cases it’s wrong, but that’s the extent on my viewpoint.
But I think here YOU are approaching the issue from the wrong perspective. We’re talking about a child here, sir, not a woman with mature views. I would not want to put a child through this experience. First, she’s been raped, now you wish to subject her to all that’s involved in a pregnancy. My God, where are your values?
“What we should be focused upon is how do we save both alive humans reagrdless of how the younger came into its existence.”
Bingo.