Prolife Except in the Case of Rape?

Eternal Perspective Ministries ^ | Randy Alcorn

[Balding_Eagle]

The author is correct.

We MUST have perfection or nothing at all.

Anything less than perfection is unholy and must be opposed with every effort that can be mustered.

[exDemMom]

However, it is still very hard to come to terms with a child (a girl of 9 let’s say) bearing a pregnancy after rape or incest. The psychological damage of all of that (the rape/incest, the pregnancy) is huge, and it must be so heartbreaking!

And the physical and psychological damage of an abortion at that age will most likely last far longer than the psychological damage of the rape.

[chuckles]

I agree with you, but as a practical matter, you will never get what you want as literally millions of babies are destroyed. If we limited it to just rape ,incest,and the LIFE of the mother we could pass that tomorrow. This has gone way to far to end up as an intellectual exercise as opposed as a way to save millions of babies. We can talk about the issue for another 60 years or we can pass a law that a majority could get behind and limit the destruction to a few thousands as opposed to millions.

It is our absolutism that has kept the argument going for 60 years. If we could save 99%, why not start there?

[arrogantsob]

The 3% figure is without birth control. It was assumed away by the study not me.

[arrogantsob]

The GOP is afraid of people who don’t like stupid comments from its candidates. The evaporation of Akins’ support shows that fear is reality-based.

[Jim Noble]

The issue here is NOT what constitutes the truth of post-rape pregnancy abortion.

The issue is the Missouri Senate election. Abortion after rape commands strong majority support. It’s the job of the pro-life movement to change that FACT, if they are able, by argument, persuasion, homiletics, and any other available means.

However, since the pro-life movement has not yet accomplished this necessary precondition to political change (and, BTW, never will IMO), the question becomes, is the greater good served by returning Claire McCaskill to the US Senate, where she will filibuster any Federal court nominee not strongly committed to abortion, or by replacing idiot loser Akin?

[arrogantsob]

Such a law not could NOT be passed and signed by The Disaster but it would entail such an intrusive state that few here would even support it.