You’re in a conversation about abortion and someone says “abortion should be legal because a woman should never be forced to carry the child of her rapist.”
What would you say?
Let’s be clear. Rape is awful. Rape is evil.
Those who commit rape deserve to be punished. Victims of rape deserve compassion and care. However, in conversations about abortion the possibly of pregnancy by rape or incest is typically used to argue for the legalization of abortion in all cases. Here are three things to remember.
1. Rape and incest represent a tiny fraction of abortions.
2. Abortion in the cases of rape punishes an innocent party.
3. Our value as humans is not based on how we are conceived.