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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And remember, it's possible in the opening scenario that she could have been raped. The Republican National platform is opposing abortion with NO EXCEPTIONS.[/quote]

Either it's a baby...a human life...and abortion is wrong.  Or it's not a baby, and not a human life, and abortion is an option.    I understand, but don't agree, with both of those positions.  But I don't understand how anyone can believe that abortion is ok in the case of rape, but not ok the rest of the time?  If it's a baby, a human being, how does the horrible act of his/her father change that? [/quote]

This is what makes folks Akin's friends.  You look at the act of the father- punish him and the life of the child "not the baby".  What about the victim- how about not making her pay for someone else's crime by carrying an unwanted child.  I'm pregnant now with a very wanted baby, but with the difficulties I'm having, this would be punishment akin to prison for someone who did not want to have a child. [/quote]

No it doesn't make me Akin's friend.  Rape is HORRIBLE.  Unspeakably horrible.  But IF you believe that the baby conceived...even in the horror of rape...is a human being, how can you justify ending the life of that baby.  The baby didn't commit rape.  Ending the baby's life doesn't punish the rapist.   I agree that it would be horrible to carry a rapist's baby, and that's something I wouldn't wish on anyone, but the alternative is killing an innocent child.   [/quote]

WRONG.  The alternative is preventing the implantation of a fertilized egg, which is not a child.  It's not even an embryo or a fetus, much less a child.  This hysteria and inflexibility is what makes your position untenable.  I would like to see you look a woman who is pregnant as a result of rape in the face and say "Gosh, it's so HORRIBLE what happened to you but I think you should be forced to incubate and birth this little bastard because it wasn't his fault."  Go do that and then come back and let us know how it went, won't you?  [/quote]

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