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Yet I cannot say I could have insisted they must carry this child to term and give birth. Dear Lord, how can we put this on someone who is, in fact, a child, one who did not choose to be assaulted in this way?

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

What you're advocating is putting it not on the child who was raped, but on the child who was fathered by rape.

And maybe you aren't advocating this exactly because we're talking about Plan B, but note that when some pol or pro-abort flack talks about rape and incest victims, they're usually talking about access to surgical abortion. In other words, they're saying, "We should ensure that a young woman is saved from the trauma of a rape/incest pregnancy by ripping her small child limb from limb and throwing it in the trash."

So when it comes to "We don't live in a perfect world," do we come down on the "...so some children will be born whose mothers were raped" side or the "...so we should rip small children apart" side?

"...ripping her small child from limb to limb and throwing it in the trash."

If a child is raped and her parents take her to a hospital which puts Plan B into effect, far from the mutilation you choose to assume will occur, in fact it isn't known at that point whether pregnancy did or will occur.

That is the situation upon which I based my remarks. You chose to equate it with every possible abortion technique, probably including partial-birth abortion.

I could better understand your disagreement had you just stated that you cannot tolerate ANY interference, at any point, just in case the girl-child may be pregnant.

If, or until, you have had to face the reality of this happening to one of your daughters or you're little sister, (and I would say the same to anyone) you can pontificate with ease.

When a human being is backed into a corner like a rat without any reasonable escape route, unless we can provide an acceptable one, I don't see where we can sit in judgement.

You can stick with your down-the-line beliefs on the subject but I can't deny to myself what I would do if faced with the realty.

In your mind I may be described as pro-abortion. I've argued against abortion with one of my adult children. I believe I finally convinced her. You can think whatever you like. I know my own mind.