[conservababeJen]

It's not too late for an extremely early medical abortion (using meds to interefere with implantation). She's been captive less than two weeks

2 weeks is too late. It's called the morning-after pill for a reason. At 2 weeks implantation has already happened and life has begun. I will never be able to understand how anyone who is pro-LIFE can say that it's ok to abort a baby from rape or incest. Life is life, a baby is a baby. I have compassion for the woman who's been raped. She's a victim, but that baby is too. 9 months is not a long time in the grand scheme of things. The babies of rape deserve life just as much as baby conceived by "accident". Why are they less worthy? There is no logical reason for a prolifer to be against abortion but allow exceptions. I know this is not a popular opinion, but it's pretty damned indisputable.

[SarahW]

No it's not too late. Her medical options would not be limited to progesterone.

Methotrexate or Mifepristone would both interfere with effective implantation.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I have compassion for the woman who's been raped.

Hand wringing and expressions of compassion are cheap, when you aren't the one who lives it. All it takes is the movement of your mouth and the exhalation of hot air.

9 months is not a long time in the grand scheme of things.

Nine months is a very significant posrtion of a human life, especially when it is spent carrying the fetus of men who raped you. It represents a full percent of the entirety of most female lives when expressed actuarially, and when you consider that most people have scant recollection of childhood, it looms ever larger in the human psyche. Of course, that never, ever stopped a militant from wringing their hands and flopping their mouths.

Give the girl the space to make her own decisions - if shes pregnant and she aborts, it is none of your business. If she is pregnant and decides on her own to go to term, it is none of your business.

And that is all i'll say on THAT topic.

[Lord_Baltar]

I'm sorry Jen, but I've got to completely disagree with you here.

If this young woman was Raped by these blood-thirsty animals, why should she be forced to carry their child.

If it's so important to you to see that child carried to term, step up to the plate and ask that the embryo be removed and inserted in your own womb.

Problem solved.

Besides, all this speculation about whether of not Jessica MIGHT have been impregnated is Worthless. It ammounts to nothing more than trying to insert a political debate into the Horror Jessica Lynch endured, and those that are trying to do it should be ashamed of themselves.