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Originally Posted by Luvian
Well, an unemployed single young woman with a rape baby to take care of really does a really horrible life ahead of her. Not only can't she feed herself but now she's got a baby to feed and take care of on top of it, and getting a job/education when there's no one at home to take care of the starving kid is really hard. Add the fact that her emotional wounds will reopen every times she sees the child and she's in for a really bad life. Ruined? I don't know, but certainly not a life I would wish on anyone...
I don't know how adoptions laws are either here or in the USA, but I think what we need is a "no questions asked" right to give your upcoming kid to adoption. You don't like the gender? Give him up for adoption. You got raped? Give him up for adoption. Can't afford having a kid? Give him up etc.
Sure many parents would give up their future kids to avoid responsibility but it's already what they're doing. At least this way the kid would be alive.
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Are you speaking from experience or theoretically?
I know 4 women who have been raped. 2 got pregnant, one when she was 11. Her daughter, 12 years younger than her is a gorgeous girl, and everyone did fine. Grandparents helped raise both Mum and daughter (at 11 she was still at home) and both are two of the most beautifully spirited women I've met.
Sometimes bad stories have a happy ending. There is no way her Mum can look at her daughter and regret the rape, because such a beautiful person resulted.
The other girl who was raped was older, and had the baby, and from all accounts they're doing fine too.
So, as those are my two experiences, I cannot see how rape is a reason to kill the innocent child.
If it's a huge problem, there's always adoption - the forgotten solution. There are NOT ENOUGH KIDS TO MEET ADOPTION DEMAND.
It's a tragedy that while kids are being killed there are couples who would give anything to take the child off their hands.
Finally, I know a number of women who aborted. One twice. 100% of them bitterly regretted it, but felt like they had no choice. One destroyed her womb and couldn't have kids. The other never had kids either. The one who aborted twice, just had a baby and is no fervently prolife.
Interestingly "Jane Roe" is pro-life and instigating legal proceedings to repeal the lawsuit in her name.
So is Bernard Nathanson, a founder of NARAL who pushed abortion to be legalised, and then, with the invention of the ultrasound, realised to his horror, he'd killed 75,000 humans.