"My main concern now is my daughter, she told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "When I heard that heartbeat, you will never know what it did to me. But I can't be asked to choose between my grandchild or my daughter."
It obviously did NOTHING to you, you soul-less wench. How would carrying a baby to full-term by a mentally disabled woman cause the baby to be DEFORMED? There are tests for these things - and available now if they baby is 23 weeks old. And all that would/should tell these people is what to be prepared for when the baby is born - which could be delivered by C-section. This is an outrage. ADOPTION is ALWAYS A CHOICE.
What is not reported in this article is the bias of the judge, if liberal bias, killing the uborn is a 'simple solution' regardless of the fact that this sensing baby will likely be dismembered for removal! I'm wondering if, since she is to have two medical procedures which require anesthesia, why she cannot have a C-section to save the life of the already alive and apparently healthy baby? I smell a deadly agenda here! I personally cite only to save the life of the woman as reason to terminate a pregnancy, but even then, if it is possible to save both alive beings, why not do so? [An before some fool leftists jumps on me for supporting pregnancy continuing in cases of rape, know this: I'm 57 and I was conceived when my blessed Mother was forced to have sex. My Mother did not have me killed since I was not the beast that committed a crime.]
The stress of late term pregancy could kill this woman. You want to risk her life to make a point. You are wrong.
Selective cosmectic abortion is wrong, immoral, and should be illegal. That is not the case here. Forget the fact that this woman was raped. Those aren't even the issues here. This woman has severe health problems and could very conceivably die from delivering a child.
I am extremely offended at you for suggesting her mother isn't aching with agony at this decision. There are plenty of black and white cases for you to scream at, but don't you dare scream at her mother. It might make you feel smug to force this woman to give birth, but your smugness won't give this woman her daughter back if the worst happens.
Sorry for this long rant, but I am sick and freak and tired of the extremists on both ends. Those who believe abortion should be used as birth control, and equate it's moral signifigance as to a hangnail procedure, and those who think mentally retarded raped, physically at risk women should be forced to give birth are equal evils.
Pray for this mother, this daughter, and pray to God that this rapist is caught.
It is my opinion that NONE of us has the right to judge this mother's actions. She is in a position that no human should ever have to occupy, and no matter what her (or our) personal beliefs are, she is already going through Hell.
My thoughts are with her, and her daughter. May the child's rapist know the teeth of all the foul Fiends, gnawing him forever.
You are correct on all counts and I applaud you for the courage to say it. Most, if not all, of the nay-sayers in this thread refuse to admit to the humanity of the child or her mother. Those who concede the species of the unborn child insinuate that the possibility of it being deformed justifies its murder. I find these responses to be as tragic as the original situation.