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To: wagglebee; RSteyn
Your post #139 is precisely right. The "we-need-abortion-because-of-rape" argument is a red herring.

However, when I see a poster drag out that tired old fish, and try to emotionalize it even further by positing the hideousness of bearing a rapist's child, I like to post that picture of the beautiful Lee Ezell and her beautiful daughter, who could almost be her twin.

Might make 'em think twice about that argument.

142 posted on 08/24/2006 11:15:01 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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To: shhrubbery!

"RSteyn" seems to have departed FR. There is a young woman whom I've known for her entire life who was raped and became pregnant last year. She now has a one year old baby and she will be the first to tell you how her greatest joy in life has come from her biggest tragedy.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1421597/posts

The whole rape-abortion argument is a juvenile trait that most people grow out of before they get out of elementary school. It is really no different than a child bargaining with his parents to be allowed to do something, eventually the child says, "well can I do it if such and such condition is met?" The parent agrees because they know that the likelihood of that condition being met are essentially nil.

I usually just look at these "we have to save abortion because of rape and incest" types and tell them it's fine by me. As long as a police report has been filed and the young woman is prepared to fully cooperate in prosecuting the man, then she should be allowed to have her abortion. The bottom line is that this argument covers less than 10,000 women a year, while the abortion industry is killing more than 3,500 babies EVERY SINGLE DAY.


146 posted on 08/24/2006 11:27:43 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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