I had a bad experience in my life which I won’t go into detail. I wound up having an abortion, which I bitterly regret to this day. I would infinitely rather that I carried the child with a very bad beginning (conception) to term and given him or her up for adoption, than know that I killed a human being, a baby.
I know from bitter, bitter personal experience that carrying a child - unwanted, unasked for, no actual (real) or perhaps known father - for nine months, is absolutely to be preferred than carrying the weight of having caused an innocent child to die, for 40 years.
Thank you for your post LJ, for your honesty and courage.
Yours is the reality nobody wants to admit or accept. It is the only reality, the universal reality of the scenario described in this thread. Being a victim does not justify victimizing the next innocent victim. Murdering an innocent baby conceived in rape cannot be justified by any appeal to “consent” or any sophistry that renames murder as justifiable killing.
I’m so sorry that you had to experience something like this. Words cannot express. Perhaps your story can convince other young women to do the right thing.
I hope that God and time have granted you a measure of peace in your life.
Rape is such an unjust, evil crime. Just below murder, perhaps in some cases just as bad. In the sense that the victim may never know happiness again.
It bothers me that she never gave consent, yet some people want to tell her what she must do. I just can’t go there. Its as if her consent means nothing.
If you can convince her to keep the baby and raise it or give it up for adoption, then I think that is really the best.
Do you remember the story of Joseph where he tells his brothers, you meant it for evil, but God turned it to good. Something like that.
I despise violet criminals because they destroy so many lives. The crazy Colorado gunman destroyed many hundreds if not thousands of lives when you count all the family and friends affected.
Likewise Rape often affects more than just the victim.