re: #254 zombie

I find that stance mildly hypocritical. Sorry.

Basically, you’re advocating murdering a child because its father committed a crime. (Rape.)

If a ten-year-old’s father went out and raped someone, should we just kill the ten-year-old, on general principles? No? Then why make the same argument (as you are doing) about a 10-week old embryo?

If you truly believe that an embryo is a human being, then it is not the embryo’s fault that its father is a criminal. You are condemning the child to death for the crime of another.

It may well be hypocritical, Zombie, but I stand by it anyway. No law banning abortion in cases of rape or incest is likely to pass in the great majority of the country and like I said, I want what I can get. Also the exceptions seem to me the right thing to do. I don’t find it just to require a woman to carry a child of a rape to term. My stance is not fully logical, but it accurately reflects my feelings.