In Brazil, the Catholic Church objected to the abortion of a 9-year-old girl who was raped by her stepfather and became pregnant with twins.
--Dana Goldstein
Posted by Dana Goldstein on March 5, 2009 4:55 PM|Permalink|
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I think the starting point for pro-life people is to point out that, unlike pro-choice people, they don't view the baby as "his". These babies are the girl's. They're not the rapist's.
In this view, the unborn child of a rape victim is just as alive as any other unborn child, and after you abort him/her, he/she is just as dead.
captcrisis: the babies are the girl's? I don't think I have ever heard anything more obscene than that. A
NINE year old girl is RAPED and now she should be forced to have children? No matter what the drawbacks to her physical and mental health? If this is the pro-life argument then it is not pro-life: it is pro-fetus and anti living woman. In this case anti living CHILD . An obscenity.
I was raped during my freshman year in college. About the time I had my abortion (ca. 1974), the Catholic hierarchy was beginning its first major pushback on abortion rights. A Catholic bishop gave testimony in a Congressional hearing that "the victim of rape survives, but the victim of abortion does not." That was the beginning of the end of Roman Catholicism for me. That cleric had absolutely no concept of what it was like to be raped and find out that the rape resulted in a pregnancy.
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COMMENTS (4)
I think the starting point for pro-life people is to point out that, unlike pro-choice people, they don't view the baby as "his". These babies are the girl's. They're not the rapist's.
In this view, the unborn child of a rape victim is just as alive as any other unborn child, and after you abort him/her, he/she is just as dead.
Posted by: captcrisis | March 5, 2009 6:41 PM
captcrisis: the babies are the girl's? I don't think I have ever heard anything more obscene than that. A
NINE year old girl is RAPED and now she should be forced to have children? No matter what the drawbacks to her physical and mental health? If this is the pro-life argument then it is not pro-life: it is pro-fetus and anti living woman. In this case anti living CHILD . An obscenity.
Posted by: Emma | March 5, 2009 7:06 PM
I love cases like this because they make plain the mindset of teh forced pregnancy movement.
Posted by: MattMinus | March 6, 2009 10:49 AM
I was raped during my freshman year in college. About the time I had my abortion (ca. 1974), the Catholic hierarchy was beginning its first major pushback on abortion rights. A Catholic bishop gave testimony in a Congressional hearing that "the victim of rape survives, but the victim of abortion does not." That was the beginning of the end of Roman Catholicism for me. That cleric had absolutely no concept of what it was like to be raped and find out that the rape resulted in a pregnancy.
Posted by: anonymice | March 6, 2009 11:17 AM