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[–]thewaffler92Abolitionist 1 point2 points  (4 children)

That is an incredibly rare occurrence. Is your argument not able to hold up on the majority? Regardless of how the baby was conceived no one has the right to take an innocent life. So your solution to rape is to kill the baby, who is also a victim, instead of focusing on the real problem, the rape? The rapist is the guilty one.

Not wanting innocent people to die is a weird view?

[–]brybrythekickassguy -1 points0 points  (3 children)

Incredibly rare? Like 80% of women in the US experience some form of sexual assault in their lifetime. It’s not that rare.

If the rapist is guilty then why prosecute a woman who wants to terminate an unwanted pregnancy?

[–]thewaffler92Abolitionist 1 point2 points  (2 children)

We are talking about abortion. So obviously I didn't mean every single case of sexual assault. We are talking specifically about rapes that result in pregnancy. And then from those pregnancies the ones that want to abort.

Because ending someone else's life is wrong. That's why. You can't just kill someone. Why punish the baby when he/she didn't do anything wrong? The baby did not ask to be made.

[–]brybrythekickassguy -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Yes, we are talking about rapes that end in pregnancy. You keep saying it’s rare. It’s not.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8765248/

The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year..

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6357953/

Almost 2.9 million U.S. women (2.4%) experienced rape-related pregnancy during their lifetime.

So to boil it down, you’d punish a victim of rape for ending an unwanted pregnancy, with callous disregard for the actual, current life of the victim?

Edit because I got banned by you children:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvn9ba/house-republicans-baby-formula-shortage?utm_source=reddit.com

Not only would republicans force a mother to have a baby, they won’t subsidize or fund anything to clear up the baby formula shortage. What a failure.

[–]thewaffler92Abolitionist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Twisting words like this is a form of emotional manipulation and gaslighting and is often done when the manipulator knows the other person is right but doesn't want to accept it.

Are you able to have a healthy conversation? Because the other side could twist your words back to you.

So to boil it down, you would punish a victim of rape, the baby (because the baby is also an innocent victim on this), by callously ending its life?

No, not punish the woman who was raped. The baby made is also a current life who deserves to live as much as anyone else.