Ftk
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| Quote (Dale_Husband @ Jan. 23 2011,19:07) | | Quote (Ftk @ Jan. 23 2011,18:05) | You know what? My aunt (actually my cousin) was the result of what occured due to rape. My grandmother raised my aunt's daughter as her own.
She is a wonderful person...is always helping others. She lives by Mayo hospital and before my Dad passed away, she let us use her home for whatever we needed on our trips back and forth to Mayo. She does that for many people since she lives so close to the hospital.
I can't say enough good things about this woman. I think about all the people who would not have received her love and kindness if her mother had opted to abort her due to a horrible incident such as rape. Rape doesn't make the child a horrible person by any means, and it didn't ruin my aunt's life to have her. |
So on the basis of that one example, you assume that all rape victims who get pregnant can have their babies and then live happily ever after?
If you aunt had a choice, and choose to have the baby, that was her right. It is not for you or some government to tell her she can't have an abortion if she feels she can't deal with the emotional trauma of a pregnancy. That's violating the dignity of the woman TWICE! It is the height of absurdity to put the supposed right to life of a fetus above the right to bodily autonomy of someone who is already born and able to make decisions for herself.
And stop the Godbotting! This isn't about what God would want (no one knows that) or what he would forgive. This is about what federal law, including the U S Constitution itself, allows. It says that "All persons BORN or naturalized....", not conceived in the United States, are citizens. And it is citizens whose rights are protected, not those who are not yet citizens. |
sigh....Im not making the choice for anyone. I'm merely sharing my views. And, no, I won't stop the "Godbotting"...it's who I am. Just like you share your viewpoints from your perspective or worldview.
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"Evolution is a creationism and just as illogical [as] the other pantheistic creation myths" -forastero
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