Zips

What if, as stated before, the child was forced upon the mother through rape? She certainly is entitled to not give birth to a child she never intended to have, especially under such extreme cases, is she not? Not only that but isn't that child a constant reminder of the traumatic experience she went through? Thinking about it or not, that child will always be a subconcious reminder of something I'm sure she has no intentions of wanting to remember. Or what about when the birth of a child is found to severely harm, injure, or even kill the mother during birth? How could you justify still having the child then?

There are cases when abortion should not be taken, and that is when the "adults" (And I use that term loosely based on the age at which people are having children now) know full well what they're doing and what the repercussions are of that action. For simplicity's sake I'll leave the mentally handicapped out of this as they might not know the full extent of what may happen when/if they get lucky (That's a discussion of a whole 'nother matter, but if you wish to take that route be my guest). However, if the child is the cause of rape, or if the child's birth will conceivably kill the mother, it should be that mother's right to decide if she wants to proceed with birth or not.

Simply put there is no clear cut solution to this matter. There are always going to be variables where it may be the right thing to do on one hand, and on the other hand it may just be flat out wrong to even think about such an option.

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