Abortion and Women's Rights

[John V]

You know exactly what I meant,

No, I don't. "OK with having a rape baby" is ambiguous.

Yes it is and what assumption?

That would be the part after "I'm assuming" above.

You literally said, you don't think it is morally correct to abort a rape baby.
I then asked you if you were raped, would you want to carry this rape baby around with you for nine months and then give birth to it?

No you asked if I, a man, were "OK with having a rape baby." Now you're clarifying that you want me to consider it as if I were a woman who had been raped. No, I would probably not want to carry the baby.

If your answer is no, then why should women have to?

First, I haven't argued that the woman should have to. just the opposite - I said I'd accept exceptions for rape.

Second, there are plenty of moral decisions that come with a price. For most people, morality isn't simply a matter of what I want.

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So you really believe that these fetuses (fetusi?) are living beings with souls, the same rights to life and everything but it's OK to kill them if the father was bad?

First, being bad is not equivalent to having raped the mother.

Second, like Bad Wolf, you use the very ambiguous "OK." As I explained, I still find abortion to be morally incorrect in the case of rape. However, if a law limiting abortion was close to passing and the only hangup was that some people insisted on an exception for rape before supporting it, then I would accept that exception as a practical matter, as the law would decrease abortion.