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iccky · 11-10-2004, 08:32 PM

DISCLAIMER: This thread is not intended as flamebate, and seeks the explination of the opinion of a specific set of people. It IS NOT intended to spark a full-fledged debate on abortion. Mods, if this should be in politics I appologize, I put it here in response to the abortion survey in this thread.

Anyway. A fair number of people express the view that abortion should be illegal except in the case of rape or incest. Now, I always assume that the belief that abortion shouls be illegal is based on the idea that life begins at conception, so abortion is murder. Why then, is murder ok if the unborn child is the result of rape? Certainly, carrying a child resulting from rape could be a horribly traumatic experience, but does 9 months of trauma for the mother justify murder?

Again, just looking for an expliation, not looking to start a war.

I ask this because I used to hold this view, until I met someone who was the child of a rape. He made me rethink my whole position and, ironicaly, come down on the opposite side as him (since I am now uncomfortably pro-choice).

11-10-2004, 08:32 PM	#1 (permalink)
iccky Psycho Location: Princeton, NJ	Abortion in the case of rape DISCLAIMER: This thread is not intended as flamebate, and seeks the explination of the opinion of a specific set of people. It IS NOT intended to spark a full-fledged debate on abortion. Mods, if this should be in politics I appologize, I put it here in response to the abortion survey in this thread. Anyway. A fair number of people express the view that abortion should be illegal except in the case of rape or incest. Now, I always assume that the belief that abortion shouls be illegal is based on the idea that life begins at conception, so abortion is murder. Why then, is murder ok if the unborn child is the result of rape? Certainly, carrying a child resulting from rape could be a horribly traumatic experience, but does 9 months of trauma for the mother justify murder? Again, just looking for an expliation, not looking to start a war. I ask this because I used to hold this view, until I met someone who was the child of a rape. He made me rethink my whole position and, ironicaly, come down on the opposite side as him (since I am now uncomfortably pro-choice).