Re: Gotta disagree with your rape argument - Edit 1
Before modification by Tashmere at 08/01/2011 01:33:18 AM
So I agree that most of the arguments people chuck out are emotion-driven or strawmen but I think you're ignoring that the same would apply for rape, and the only argument differentiating it from other cases would then be that the severe emotional trauma of the rape itself and carrying the fetus was a direct and severe risk to the life of either the mother or child. That strikes me as a real possibility, but obviously not for direct medical reasons and I would tend to think anyone who was in a state of emotional trauma so profound as to be at real health risk is not of sound mind at the time, and thus not able to make decisions.
That last sentence came close to making me shudder. If a woman were violently raped and forced to carry the child to term I can see where that could make her suicidal or severely screwed up. Are you saying that she should not be allowed to make the decision whether to keep the child? Really? What if that were your wife and she had been raped violently by another man? How would you feel about her being forced to carry that child? What would it do to her? What would it do to you and your marriage? How would it effect her relationship with your other children? Or future children (if you could ever talk her into having any?) You may have just been making a point so I won't say that you made me shudder but the idea of a severely traumatized woman being denied any relief from such a horrible nightmare and being further punished for months on end...