Abortion covers up child rape and protects sex offenders... think about that

Difference is 5 year old has philosophical existence. A name, a voice, 5 years of memories and proofs of existence. It's like comparing killing a cow for meat and killing someone's dog. Sure, a vegan libtard would say it's the same, but the cow is just meat whereas that dog is someone's loyal companion.

As for rape, you punish the rapist, and save the mother from that trauma. Obviously if a woman doesn't even think to abort the product of a rape, good on her. However, not everyone is the same, and it's not fair for someone who was raped to face an 18 hear responsibility over it.

The answer for that mother would be not killing the child, if 5 years later that child is a trigger of grief and trauma, adopting the child out to a loving family, not the foster system, would be the best choice.

The questions are only hard if you absolutely believe fetus is a full human. We're the only species to police reproduction. We have myriads of religious texts from multiple religions and very few actually condemn abortion explicitly.

The product of a rape being the absolute will of God? I don't buy it. Lots of this strikes me as very privileged people speaking from self righteousness.

I understand both sides and feel like I could argue both sides. If we say the existence of a heartbeat is what determines a life, then at what point does the heart start beating? It's always beating, the beat is just too minor for machines to detect it. Almost right at conceptions there is a vibration in the cells that will later turn into a heart. With that said though, I have a rather unpopular opinion for this board. I just don't view an embryo to be the equivalent of a human. It has a lot of potential, but we know that miscarriages happen weeks after conception because the body has decided that the embryo is not capable of life (chromosomes, etc.)

Pregnancy is extremely difficult on the womans body and I believe a woman should be given a window of time to rectify an undesirable situation. We know from countries, like Georgia, where abortion was made illegal and it resulted in many children ending up in children's homes or growing up with mother's who don't want them. This led to crime rates skyrocketing two decades later. Sure, in a perfect world, anyone who does not wish to have a child can give the child to someone who does, but what happens when there are more children than families who want them?

I understand very much that this is an unpopular opinion and I'm not looking for any nasty debate, but you seemed genuinely curious for others opinions. To me, a child being born to a mother who does not want it is much more heartbreaking (for the mother and child) than abortion in the very beginning of pregnancy because I view it as only cells with potential for life, much like sperm and eggs are cells with potential for life.

I'm certainly not saying that abortion should be used as a form of birth control, absolutely not. But I think that it's better for everyone if a woman has an out early on. Give her the ultrasound and chastise her for not being more careful, but give her an out.

I come to this point of view based on the following scenario. Imagine a husband and wife where the husband purposely keeps getting the wife pregnant because he wants to have as many babies as possible. Obviously this is an abusive relationship all around with many control issues. Yes, ideally the woman should leave him, but she is just too afraid or can't for many reasons. If she was strong enough to leave, she wouldn't have gotten herself into this mess. She knows that having any more children will throw them into poverty. Her way of dealing with the situation is to have early term abortions. Is it ideal? Absolutely not. The wife is certainly not happy about this solution but at least she has an out and she won't be subjecting her family to poverty, she won't be subjecting any additional children to growing up with this man as a father, who will in turn carry on in the same way in society. At least she can focus on her two children and do the best that she can with them. As crazy as this sounds, this is an actual true situation and I'm very greatful this woman had an out.