Rape victim seeks abortion: Pro-life response?

Legal or not makes no difference. You can't stop someone having an abortion. You have no right to judge them. It's their body.

Well I consider a 9 month forced nonconsensual invasion of a woman's body, removing her right and control over her own self to be equivalent to a 9 month continous rape...if that shows my opinion.

I was wondering what the pro-life enthuasiasts would say in response to a rape victim seeking an abortion? Why shouldn't these people be allowed to abort?

AND/OR CONSIDER:

Child abuse cases? i.e. where a young girl, say aged 13/14 (young enough to be essentially deemed a 'child', however, biologically fertile) is abused, and becomes pregnant as a result?

I very rarely come into contact with absolute pro-life people, I was wondering their thoughts, really.

So what? You agree with me - criminalising it in the UK would likely not lead to any deaths, or are we somehow different from the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland?

Should the victim seek the death of the rapist? If not why not?

Erm, the women from Ireland come to our country as it's not criminalised, thus if it was criminalised, where would they go, and where would the women in this country go? France? Pay for private healthcare that they can't afford?

I totally agree, why punish the mother and make her have the baby, it was the rapist who was in the wrong so he should take the stigma/responsibilty for the ending of a babies life.

To be honest, if someone raped me in a brutal way, I might be inclined to want them dead (although, I can't say for definite, as I've never been raped - but, I can say so in a speculative way). Especially as some rapists kill their victims; or in fact care absolutely in no way about their welfare. To use someone as an empty vessel for violent sexual control, and then to discard them as worthless is likely to shape vengeful feeling.

In general you're anti-choicers tend to be of two or three trends:

1) No Abortions whatsoever - god decides (because yes, most anti-choice types tend to be so on religious grounds)

2) No Abortions accept in the case of Rape or Incest.

3) No Abortions accept in the case of Rape, Incest, or potentially fatal risk to the mother.

Good post. I love the term anti-choicers. Its so much more accurate than pro life. ;yes;

It depends if you want to debate or just throw insults around. I could call you pro-murder, or even an apologist for genocide, but I don't. It's behaving in a civil way and respecting those who disagree with you; it's all part and parcel of maturity.

No. It is not factual that abortion is murder. But it *is* factual that those against abortion are anti-choice ;yes;

I'm strongly against abortion myself, I have my reasons and it's something I really strongly am against. In the event of rape I feel it is necessary to view the situation on it's own and not make decisions and say " All Rape victims should keep their baby " or "All rape victims should abort". The matter of rape and or very very high risk of mother dying due to birth are the only reasons a child should be aborted.The kind of person the individual who has been raped is will obviously depend on whether they feel strong enough to keep the baby or not . I just hope the majority of people would find the strength to keep their baby but I cannot say they should defientely keep it as I have never experienced it myself meaning I cannot imagine the emotional and pyschological pain rape victims endure. I would like to think if it ever happened I would gather the strength to keep the child.

Adoption? What idiot tells a rape victim to give birth so someone else can raise the child?! No child will want their birth father to be a rapist and they were brought to this world by mistake.

I don't have a problem with being called anti-choice actually. I don't see anything derogatory about it.

Well no aborted foetus will tell you they would rather have lived. Because they never were a person with consciousness.