Few people want to hear this, but in the case of rape, the innocent unborn child hasn’t done anything to deserve death. I can understand why the victim wouldn’t want to give birth, BELIEVE ME, but that’s the truth of the matter.
If you allow abortion in the case of incest, I think you must necessarily be comfortable with aborting any other child who might be born with a defect. Should we also abort in the case of a prenatal Down Syndrome test coming back positive?
Yeah, it is the emotional issue though that gets people’s ire up. They use it as the reason to justify legalization of all abortion, when the stats would show that is not the reason the majority of abortions are performed. They are performed because women are careless, and don’t want to deal with the consequences of their carelessness.
While this is an important philisophical debate with deadly implications, we need to win against the pro-aborts on partial birth abortion and the ‘health and welfare’ clauses that allow abortions in the 2nd and 3rd trimesters. Further we need to pound them on parental consent and all else that is supported by 70% of this nation.
We need to support pro-life candidates and judges.
We need to move the trenches forward in this battle and breach their lines - not shoot for something that is completely out of sight at the moment. Philisophically we can deny the morality of abortions from rape and incest. But practically, I would redirect that question each and every time to the 70,000 (or so) 3rd trimester abortions and how we can conscienably allow that.
Battle fire with fire with these pro-aborts...