'This can't be happening in our country.'

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

I think what we are talking about is a child that is a constant reminder to the woman who was raped and conceived the child as a result. Rape is more than a loveless act, it is violent and brutal to the woman. This to me is considered a special case but the abortion needs to happen in the early stages. I do agree with you that the child is blameless. But, what is a woman to do that was involved in gang rape or rape at all?

But that goes directly against the stated concept that all life is sacred. If someone is truly against abortion the circumstances should not matter.

But this is a purely theoretical argument. It is my belief that there is only one opinion that matters - the mother's. She has to carry the child, and no one else. Yes, it would be nice if it were discussed with the father, and there is always the reverse argument that if she chooses to have the child he will be forced to help pay for it's upbringing. But that is a separate subject, and actually has little to do with the topic at hand.

I am very much against abortion, but the only option is to make it illegal again, and the only justifiable grounds for that is that it's murder. Is it? By what legal grounds? Who decides? Certainly not me, or any other man. I can only see the mother making that choice.