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Of course the child has a right to life, BUT, the problem here is whether this child even has the intelligence to be considered human. I mean, she doesn't even have the intelligence to be mobile, amoebae manage that. It's hard to argue that anything but the most basic reflexes required to keep the body alive exist. I don't believe that you can even comfort her, because she's not sentient, not even on the limited level of an animal.
While every human has a right to live, humans also have a right to live AND die with dignity. If you consider her to be intelligent, to an extent, and feeling, then you have to afford her those rights rather than deal with what her parents are putting her through for THEIR comfort. She doesn't even have the intelligence to walk, how would she ever be the victim of molestation unless it was within their own family or they left her outside on the lawn? That part of their argument is just too thin.
And frankly, if they're willing to carve out her reproductive parts, why would they be so utterly opposed just getting her a far less destructive abortion at some point if she DID get abused? It would be orders of magnitude less invasive. Either way, there would be the mental scarring(Again, assuming she even has the capacity for such.).
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