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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
There could certainly be benefits to carrying out the act when the pregancy is a result of rape or when the fetus has defects - psychological in particular. But I don't believe that these benefits come close to justifying the act.
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I don't favor abortion as a means of birth control. You take a life. You don't want to call it human, because if you do that makes it very uncomfortable, so you call it a fetus.
On the rape issue, I don't think capital punishment for the baby in response to the father's crime is appropriate, but I do think that the law should cover severence of rights for a child conceived through sexual assault. What woman wants her rapist to have rights to her child?
In my opinion, any anti-abortion law would have to cover the health of the mother, the viability of the pregnancy, and sever the rights of any rapist (but not the obligation to pay support).