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From: aardvark@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: "The child of a fiend"
Message-ID: <793@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 15:40:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 15:40:09 1985
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In article <> pmd@cbscc.UUCP (Paul M. Dubuc) writes:
>
>I also watched the PBS special on abortion last week.  While
>there are probably many things that could be said by people
>on both sides of the issue about certain aspects of the film,
>there is one thing that especially sticks in my mind.
>
>In the pro-choice film that followed "Concieved in Liberty",
>a woman related the story of how she had been the victim
>of a rape that resulted in pregnancy.  In her final remarks
>she condemned the anti-abortion view as being one that would
>"force her to bear the child of a fiend".  While not trying
>in any way to lessen the heinous nature of the crime of rape,
>I couldn't help but notice that her statement implied that
>she had projected her hatred for the rapist onto his child.
>Is this a legitimate thing to do?
>
>I wonder how many people are walking around today who are the
>sons and daughters of fiends in the same respect.  The implication
>of the woman's comment is that there is all the more reason that
>their lives should have been snuffed out in the womb.  Does
>the child conceived as the result of rape or incest somehow bear
>some the responsibility for the crime?  Do pro-choice folks really
>support abortion on demand by sustaining this stigma?  If that
>stigma is just for the fetus, how does it become unjust when
>that person is born (*if* it does)?  The circumstances of conception
>haven't changed.
>-- 
>
>Paul Dubuc 	cbscc!pmd

Why should she be forced to carry the child of her attacker? The
rapist committed a crime against her that some women kill themselves
over (the shame, the fear, the horror of rape). Why should she want
to give life to his seed that has that gene: the gene for rape! The
thought of bringing another of HIS type into the world frightens
*me*, to say nothing of how it affects her. Every time she wakes up
with morning sickness she remembers the rape. The conflict of abortion
versus carrying a (very) unwanted child to term has driven some women 
to suicide. The sins of the parents are visited upon their children.
In a case like this, the *father* is the one who is guilty of the murder
since *he* placed the child/fetus in an unsafe place.

aardvark@nmtvax!unm-la!lanl!ihnp4...


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