Does anyone know the percentage of Rape & Incest babies? I bet it is extremely low. That is why it is Never mentioned in any Lib article. This entire subject is about Libs wanting the public to pay for their abortions(in general). It is a single issue which gives the ProChoice Fanatics a platform. They think this is going to change an election? Think again. Most people with an set opinionreally don’t care whether people want to kill their babies. There are much more important issues on the table. DNC put all their eggs in this basket and it will be a crushing landslide against them.
As Rush says; you don’t respond. You ask if the interviewer has asked Obama about his support for partial birth abortion and live birth abortion.
When the interviewer tries to follow up keep hammering on the fact that Obama voted three times to allow killing children who were born alive after an abortion attempt.
Turn it back on them.
It’s good question to be asked of all candidates for office and insist on an answer. Too much shuck and jiving going on. Also ask about gay marriage.
Of course, liberals don't see it as a child, so the answer would be lost on them, but at least it frames the debate.
Abortion only continues the cycle of violence.
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My perspective...
So we address one violent attack by committing another?
Whatever you think is right for your state.
Simple question: What did the baby do to deserve capital punishment?
As has already been stated, the abortion is another assault on the body of the rape/incest victim.
Another point is that it is often the perpetrator that pressures the victim to have an abortion in order to keep the crime undetected. This is why there are laws about taking a minor across state lines to have an abortion.
If you are trying to get elected it’s real simple:
The rape victim gets to decide how to proceed and handle her own trauma.
Anything else and you WILL lose more votes than you gain.
Most rape victims most likely don’t do nuance. They get to decide for themselves.
Social conservatives finding enumerated powers in scripture and “moral absolutes” always comes to no good. Anthony Comstock made Margaret Sanger a celebrity. We’d have been better off if he’s left well enought alone.
Why is the one and only person in the equation who is absolutely, without a doubt, innocent of anything the one that faces capital punishment??
I prefer to turn it around on them “why are you guys so obsessed with rape and incest pregnancies? Is this like a goal, a dream, do you need money for a therapist?” That usually shuts them up.
That only one % of abortions are of children born of rape. That 50% of pregnancies from rape are aborted and that is 15,000 innocent victims per year.
Making up or exaggerating a biological mechanism whereby they shouldn’t exist if it was “legitimate” rape is NOT the way to go.
“How do we respond to the claims of rape and incest?”
Punish the guilty. Protect and preserve the innocent.
It seems like this discussion has gone on forever. I wish I would hear a candidate just say he is totally pro-life but realizes a change in awareness is needed for the rest of the country to feel like him. More education is needed as far as when an unborn has a heartbeat, brainwaves, can feel pain, etc. The personhood legislation would be a way to go from there and it would have broad support. In the meantime repealing Obamacare will save some babies. Yes the fight goes on I just wish people would wake up so it would not be such a battle.
in most states the father (ie rapist) has full rights to the child so adoption is not always possibe. Until that changes many women will not want to have the baby.
The child who is conceived by rape or incest is an innocent life. Why do the pro abortion crowd argue that we should allow an innocent life to be taken? Odd how the same people who are anti death penalty because “taking life is wrong” are so quick to advocate the death of innocents
Abortion in the cases of incest and rape is a red herring. One only has to ask: would the “pro-choice” advocates be satisfied if abortions were limited to those who were raped or had an incestuous relationship?