Koldo
Outstanding Member
Then, having agreed that the woman has been victimized and needs our help, you can frame the question of abortion in this manner: Will an abortion help her? By asking this, you are now questioning what is normally an unspoken, unchallenged assumption, namely, that the abortion is somehow a solution to the rape, and somehow helps alleviate the pain and trauma of the woman.
The abortion is not a solution for the rape. It is a solution for the pregnancy
Having questioned this assumption, therefore, bring in the evidence that not only does the abortion not alleviate the trauma of the rape, but it brings a trauma of its own. Countless women suffer for years and decades after abortion.. I know of women who have been raped and then had abortions, and are in counseling not for the rape but for the abortion! In rape, the trauma is "Someone hurt me." In abortion, the trauma is "I hurt and killed someone else: my child." That brings even more grief.
I know of women who have been raped and then had abortions, and are in counseling not for the abortion but for the rape!
You can, but you don't have to. That is the point.The next step of the process is to show that our compassion actually is more inclusive than that of those who would allow abortion. Having established that we care about the rape victim, we then ask the powerful question, Why can't we love them both? Why can't we extend to the child the same practical compassion which we both agree belongs to the woman? Why can't we expand the boundaries of those we welcome and care for?
I didn't know that poverty was a criteria for determining who lives or who dies. :no:The girls needs help, not more violence.
It may be a criteria to determine who is granted the right to be born.
The baby dies needlessly; death does not cure poverty; the girl, in accordancce with the OP scenario, needs help, not the violence of an abortion making her worse. My statement stands. I hope I have made myself clear.
Who is to say it is 'needlessly'?
How would you know?
Personally, i find it to be far more violent to allow this baby to be born.