Posted on 08/25/2006 3:11:34 PM PDT by wagglebee
In Canada and most other liberal countries capital punishment is outlawed and usually opposed by a healthy majority of the population. That is all well and good. I too oppose capital punishment in those nations where the penal system is sufficient to keep dangerous criminals out of harms way.
However, many of these so-called liberal countries, accept abortion, and most began their acceptance of abortion with accepting abortion in the hard cases of rape and incest.
However, in a civilized country we punish the guilty and not the innocent. So why are we suggesting capital punishment for the innocent unborn child rather than the guilty rapist?
We do not usually suggest criminal penalty for the children of those who commit crimes so why are we suggesting capital punishment for the child of the rapist?
Secondly, abortion is harmful to the women that undergo it. Childbirth is a natural function that women's bodies were made for. Abortion is not. Abortion is a traumatic event psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and physically.
Why are we giving more trauma to the victim of rape by encouraging her to abort her child?
Carrying such a child to term has been for many women a help in coming to grips with the abuse they suffered. Many victims of rape and children born of such attacks have testified to these truths.
For more information on the harmful effects of abortion on women we suggest contacting Silent No More Awareness Campaign.
Why are we giving more trauma to the victim of rape by encouraging her to abort her child?
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This is an excellent commentary!
You hear the saying
"rape destroys a life"..
well. factor in abortion. and it destroys 2 lives. Why destroy an innocent life. What did the unborn do wrong ? God loves the mother and the unborn.
Please find evidence of a single woman who has been forced to have a child conceived by a rape, or a woman who chose to give birth and later regretted it.
I would never claim to know how the victim of a rape would feel upon learning that she was now impregnated with her rapist's sperm. I don't see how we could say that an abortion would add "more trauma" to the victim of rape. We are not "her" so we simply cannot know.
I can think of a few instances where killing someone could be therapeutic for me (child murderers come to mind), even though as a male I am not likely to get pregnant by a rapist or otherwise.
A woman who commits the crime of abortion following a rape deserves to get her sentence reduced.
"Many consider it traumatic to give birth to the child of a rapist. That is why we give them the choice, nobody is forcing them to have an abortion. You on the other hand appear to be willing to force these women into the traumatic birth of their rapists child."
I am very pro-life, but that is a comment worth considering.
No moral person with a brain can support an exception for rape, as the article amply demonstrates.
I don't believe that anyone can force a woman to give birth to a child conceived by rape.....yet. I know there are some who would do just that if they could manage to get a law passed.
The answer is simple, really. The focus of the pro-baby-murder group isn't the rapist...isn't the baby...it's the self. The pro-baby-murder movement has one aim only. Self convenience. Period. The shame is that so many politicians, and so many ignorant people, enable this. Shame.
The rape/incest argument is always brought up by pro-death activists. The FACT is that less than 1% of rape victims become pregnant.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC079.HTM
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
http://www.mccl.org/abortion_statistics_mn.htm
When you can show me a single law in the US or any non-barbaric country, that allows the execution of an innocent victim of a crime, then I'll buy you're argument.
you're = your...
Many on the Plan B thread the other day were insisting that the pills were nothing more than abortions. It's good to see that some, including yourself, now see that these pills are not abortions. Well done.
Read these links, it's really a non issue, less than 1% of rapes end in a pregnancy.
http://www.ewtn.com/library/PROLENC/ENCYC079.HTM
http://www.cbrinfo.org/Resources/fastfacts.html
http://www.mccl.org/abortion_statistics_mn.htm
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