Having my rapist's baby is the best thing I ever did

The Daily Mail (UK) ^ | September 9, 2009 | Diane Leeming

[Dan Middleton]

My life is proof that something good can come from something so terrible. And I don't regret my last minute change of heart one bit.

[Dan Middleton]

Lots of nominally pro-life people include a rape exception in their position. Logically, this is only compounding a tragedy and punishing the innocent for the crimes of the guilty, but it's easy to seem insensitive making that argument. This article, on the other hand, communicates it compassionately and powerfully.

[Marie2]

A woman who has been raped is already a victim. I think forcible rape should be a death penalty crime. For the rapist.

To expect or encourage her to abort the baby after a rape is to push her into being a perpetrator.

Abortion does not “unrape” or heal us.

For her to give life to an innocent child (that is half hers) and either care for it or give it to a loving couple is difficult but also healing. It gives her back the power in a terrible situation, and helps her to be a genuine force for good. The few women who actually carry through on this will attest to it.

Not to mention that the baby is a completely innocent party and has done nothing to deserve execution. I have heard several times that Oprah Winfrey is the product of a forcible rape. I don’t have any evidence for it though.

[stubernx98]

OTOH, do we need to carry on more bad genes?

[GVnana]

Powerful story.

[OpeEdMunkey]

Wow. That’s commitment.

[ROTB]

Who says it’s genetics? Maybe it’s the pagan godless society lower part of the bell curve?

[Marie2]

You are assuming being a rapist is genetic. I am not convinced of that.

[Dan Middleton]

[OneWingedShark]

You assume that the problem is genetic; that needn’t be the case.

[murron]

National Right to Life always pushed for exceptions.

[murron]

What if the baby’s a girl?

[Julia H.]

How can anti-abortionists be so insensitive? Everyone knows unceremoniously dismembering a helpless baby for the mother's convenience is the utmost act of sensitivity. /s

If being raped justified killing an unborn child, why doesn't it justify killing a newborn? Did your human rights develop somewhere in your mother's cervix, waiting to be picked up on your way out of the womb?

[Julia H.]

How can a society be both pagan and godless?

[hinckley buzzard]

Having been active in the national prolife movement over the last twenty years or so, I can verify that for many women, abortion following rape is "a second rape."

Liberals reveal their hostile anti-life attitude when they saddle the injured woman with the burden of killing her own child. What a despicable act. And perpetrated in the name of "reproductive rights."

[ROTB]

Cornered, me you did.

:)

[ari-freedom]

good souls can compensate for bad genes

[tbw2]

That they are pagan but lack a one, true god. Like the pagans who worship Obama - lots of Gods, none of them real. ObamaCare Jokes Obama Jokes

[Julia H.]

Yep! You owe me a beer.

[Julia H.]

Secular humanists/atheists aren’t pagans in the technical sense. At least pagans ask for the guidance of a creator, even if they’re dialing the wrong number. (If only they’d check the Phone Book!)

[ROTB]

>Yep! You owe me a beer.

You can collect at the Palin inauguration in 2012.