[Tired of Taxes]

You're the one imagining things and making circular arguments. I didn't say we should "do nothing." I'm merely asking for a policy that is consistent. Your position that a jury should decide whether a pregnant woman can have an abortion is inconsistent. If the unborn is a life that deserves protection, then that life deserves protection no matter what. Whether or not the woman was raped or is underage does not diminish the value of that life.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Your position that a jury should decide whether a pregnant woman can have an abortion is inconsistent. If the unborn is a life that deserves protection, then that life deserves protection no matter what. Whether or not the woman was raped or is underage does not diminish the value of that life.

No one person should decide the taking of human life, no matter how small. The Constitution requires that a jury decides. The woman's life also deserves protection and I will admit that only a victim of rape, has her life taken from her by force.

This does deserve some legal recourse to terminate the impregnation, if the adult victim reports the crime in a timely manner to potentially prevent the assailant from victimizing others and prevents the development of a new life. An adult rape victim does have a social responsibility to report a felony (which I see as a capital offense).

[ I say "conception" is not the beginning of human life. After prophase, the first mitosis (post-anaphase amitosis) is the emergence of a new life with uniquely indentifiable human genetic characteristics. This does not occur immediately and can take up to between 24 and 48 hours. ]

A juvenile is another matter, in that a juvenile is not of consenting age and has no adult responsibilities. This is a murky area as I have said.