rape & abortion

United States
September 27, 2007 12:01am CST
If you were raped would you get an abortion???
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12 responses
@violeta_va (4831)
• Australia
27 Sep 07
I would defenetly have an abortion. There is no way I could carry that child full term and raise it or give it up. By the way I wont wait till I am far gone but would take the tablet soon after the rape and get checked properly so the "embrio" would be no more than 2-3 weeks old. I know its not the baby's fault but it would be not mine as well. the man would not be the person that I want to have kids with or have him in my mind every time I look at the child.
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• United States
28 Sep 07
I kind of agree with you, I would have a hard time dealing with the pregnancy and carrying the child of the man who raped me, but them to me it's like still it's partly my child too...it's just really hard to say.
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• United States
28 Sep 07
All all comes down to is if you're willing to carry it or not. Less women are likely to carry a pregnancy from a rape, but there are still women who wouldn't carry a pregnancy anyway.
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• United States
28 Sep 07
I am a Pro-Choice Pro-Lifer which means that I view abortion as murder but cannot support the Pro-Life movement's attitude that abortion is never justified. When it comes to extreme circumstances wherein the life of the mother is threatened I like the laws the way they are because my wife and I would still have the option of ending the life of a child we would likely never get a chance to know anyway. We would no doubt be devastated to lose the child but it would leave me far more devastated if I was denied the choice and subsequently lost my wife AND my child because of some unreasonable law. By the same token, if my wife became impregnated by a rapist I would leave it up to her to decide what to do with the baby. I can see a certain degree of justification for not allowing the product of such a union into the world but I think she would ultimately agree that it would be better to spare an innocent life but give it up for adoption. If she ended the pregnancy under those conditions, I would support the decision whole- (although admittedly heavy-) heartedly.
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@runsgame (2031)
• India
27 Sep 07
please wash your thought please. i do not beleive in rape and also in abortion . both are sin and both should be avoided.
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@eden32 (3973)
• United States
28 Sep 07
You don't believe in rape? It's not the Easter Bunny, like it or not, it happens. How can you say you don't believe in it, as if that makes it unreal?
@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
13 Oct 07
Being a survivor of not one but TWO rapes (lost my virginity to a rapist when I was 13 and was raped and beaten by 3 when I was 17) and also being someone who has had an abortion (my second child with my husband) I can honestly say that YES if I were to get pregnant from a rape I would abort and not think twice about it...Dont get me wrong, I love my kids, I'd love to have more kids but TO ME...that wouldnt be my child...it would be a constant painful and traumatizing reminder of the rape and I couldnt live with that..In fact if for some reason I were forced to carry to term..I would kill myself or self abort or something..there is NO WAY I'd go through with the pregnancy....
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• United States
27 Sep 07
Yes, yes, yes a thousand times yes. I don't want kids in the first place, but to be violated in the worst way humanly possible? No way, there is no way in hell I would carry that monsters spawn. If I could, I'd rip it out myself and shove it down the creep's throat.
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• United States
2 Oct 07
Okkkaaayy...
• United States
2 Oct 07
"Okkkaaaaaayyy...." what?
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• Philippines
27 Sep 07
It is hard decision for female who'd been into rape and get preggy. In my opinion, it is really hard for a women to get pregnant with an unwanted father. But abortion is out of the picture, it may hurt physically, emotionally and psychologically but the main point here is, they conceive a child and no matter how tragic it becomes, a child is a child. They should care for them, nurish and let them grow properly. For the mother forget the things in the past, it only makes you miserable and the fact that you hate the father, you will also feel the same way with the children. Your child is yours, and the joy that will bring to you in uncomparable.
• United States
27 Sep 07
Not everyone wants kids in the first place, so the whole "it will bring incomperable joy" is false. Secondly, no one "just forgets" being raped. It's not just a bad thing that happened, like a broken nail or a dented fender. It's the more horrendeous, degrading, dehumanizing, violent, evil thing anyone can ever do to someone and it takes years and years to get over.
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• United States
2 Oct 07
"We have a little time in this world to entertain wrath, live life as if nothing has ever change you from the time you are born." Sorry, but this is utter bullsh*t. Life changes you, that's ther nature of life. Everyone changes, all the time. If everyone stayed the same it would be boring. Traumas and tragedies effect you the most and to tell people they're wrong for being effected is heartless and cruel. I, for one, am not a forgiving person. Never have been and I don't intend to change any time soon. My capacity for hate is as vast as my capacity for anything else and I don't mind one bit.
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@ghazal2k5 (920)
• India
27 Sep 07
Lol...I wish if some female could rape me. I won't even need abortion...hehehe
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@Springlady (3986)
• United States
15 Oct 07
I pray to God that I would not resort to abortion. I know I would be in a lot of pain and suffering from what I had gone thru, but killing an innocent baby is not the answer. I would either keep the baby or if I felt I could not take care of it, I would give it up for adoption. I probably would keep the child though. Abortion is murder...legalized murder. That child is still loved by God and He has plans for him/her. I know of someone who is a missionary that was conceived out of rape. Praise God his mother did not choose to murder him!
• United States
15 Oct 07
If god loves it so much, I'd be more than happy to give it back to him.
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• United States
27 Nov 07
Sorry, but no. My life is lived by my will and no one else's. My body will be used at my descretion and no one else's.
• United States
15 Oct 07
He will take the child when it is HIS will, not ours. God bless.
@aries_0325 (3060)
• Philippines
12 Jan 08
No, I would continue to born the baby whatever happen and I think it is not a sin to born the baby if you are a raped victim. Abortion is an absolutely wrong and it is a crime of murder. And absolutely I am not favor for this. And I think the fetus have life and like us she/he have a right to see this wonderful world.
@eden32 (3973)
• United States
28 Sep 07
I'd head to the pharmacy for "Plan B" as soon as I possibly could. But if that failed, I'd terminate. There is no way I'd make the sacrifices & commitment to a pregnancy conceived through a rape that I would for a pregnancy I chose to have. I wouldn't ask my children to understand why Mom's having a baby but giving it up for adoption.
@marcialoyd (1173)
• United States
28 Sep 07
I could never do this. I mean reguardless of how this child was concieved it is STILL MY CHILD. The child did not ask for this to happen. It might would be hard but I would give birth to and raise this child.
• United States
7 Oct 07
I was raped, got pregnant as a result, and had my baby. He's now 18 :) If someone out there is in a similar situation (or any unplanned pregnancy), Birthright can help - 800-550-4900, birthright.org. They're an interdenominational non-profit; they don't evangelize, they don't judge, they're not weird... they just help you decide whether to keep the baby or give it up for adoption, and they'll help you do whatever you decide. GREAT people.