Attack at Planned Parenthood Clinic

[rexbeccarox]

I'd like to focus on the question of coercion.  If a woman feels as CL does that even a child conceived in rape is a human being with a right to life, then I'm all for her acting in accord with her values.  I wouldn't wish to coerce her actions by force of law.

Cathy and Tiberius - are you content to plead your case to a woman pregnant by rape but then leave it to her to decide?  Or do you think her choice should be coerced by law?

It would be hard at first, I won't deny that. And I don't envy any woman who gets raped and finds herself pregnant. Thank goodness it's rare, especially if she takes the morning after pill. But I still stand that the law should protect the right to life of all humans, which like Tib said, trumps all other rights. Of course, she'd get all the help she needs, including counseling and all medical bills paid for and an easy adoption process assuming she chooses not to keep the baby. Ideally, our culture would eventually become one that saw the unborn as human beings and abortions wouldn't even be wanted by the majority of people who otherwise would. 

I am familiar with a lady who was conceived by rape. I don't know her personally but met her in a pro life facebook group and exchanged several PMs. She's a lovely lady, married with 3 children, and does a lot of charity type work to help the poor children in Uganda. Rape is horrible. But any person who comes from it is an innocent bystander and can grow up to become the best of people if we only see them worthy of that chance.

And I know someone who was a product of rape who ended up in jail again and again and again for a variety of things: he beats people up, he steals, he tried to take on a bank, murder... RAPE.