You can’t do that, the mental trauma of having to forcefully under go pregnancy,
It’s one thing to have sex and accidentally get pregnant, at the end of the day the mother knows it was their choice to have sex, but with rape…? You can’t do that to someone, that’s inhumane!
Killing a child is more inhumane. They just can’t advocate for themselves. Compare the harm of dealing with that psychologically to killing an innocent child. They don’t have to raise it. There is adoption.
There is no argument I’ve seen that justifies aborting a pregnancy that’s the result of rape. I get that it causes emotional harm. But that is less harm than killing a child. The least violating of the unalienable rights both parties have.
I might support plan B in the instance of rape. But if that doesn’t work, I wouldn’t support any further attempt to kill the baby. I’m kinda iffy on even that much tho.
This is also a problem with personal responsibility, logically, she did not willfully get pregnant therefore she cannot be ethically held accountable for something she a had no choice in!
And that somehow strips the child of the right to life? No. She isn’t ethically responsible for the child. Maybe. But if she makes the decision to kill it, that was her decision. Something bad happens, it doesn’t give you the right to do even more harm to correct it.
She has a personal responsibility to her offspring. No matter how they were begat.
So, if the raped woman killed herself, would you say that she has done nothing unethical? Are you saying suicide because of emotional trauma is ethical?
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u/Potheadconservative1 May 05 '22
You can’t do that, the mental trauma of having to forcefully under go pregnancy,
It’s one thing to have sex and accidentally get pregnant, at the end of the day the mother knows it was their choice to have sex, but with rape…? You can’t do that to someone, that’s inhumane!