It embarasses me to admit this, but I am one Catholic who would be willing to stipulate for “choice” in cases of rape and incest, if that meant we could save the other millions that were “inconvenient.” I expect that this will be what happens in a lot of states when the issue eventually goes back to them.
The not-so-unforseen consequence of this, of course, will be a rise in false accusations of rape.
If my own daughter was raped, I would hope that I had taught her well enough to make the correct the decision, I would do what I could to support her. Having known a few rape victims in my life, I can say for sure that there are more than a few women who would take their own (and their child’s) lives rather than give birth to their attacker’s baby.
Not only that, but forcing someone by law to bear the result of an injustice doesn’t ring well with me in a free country. If the girl in that situation had an illegal abortion of a rape/incest baby, what would we do, throw her in jail?
I haven’t even speculated the unintended consequences of liberals twisting such a law to their ends.
I hope she’d keep the baby, encourage her to do so, and provide her adoption options, but I wouldn’t make a law mandating her to do so.
Hope you have your flame retardant undies on.
Some will call you pro abortion and a baby killer even though you could be 100% against abortion but because you fail to effectively impose your will on others then you will be a baby killer and pro abortion.