I agree - and thankfully I was not put in a position to have to make a decision to abort a child or not because of that incident.

My attempted suicide is also not entirely due to that incident. There are other reasons that are not necessary to go into here, but let's just say I have an illness that can make me irrational (well, it could when I was a teenager) and that underlying illness was really the causal factor for that - and other - attempts I made as a young adult.

I never judge people on the issue of suicide, either - I don't think anyone can unless they've been there themselves. It's utterly alien to most people and therefore they cannot understand the feelings and circumstances surrounding any such attempt. But that's for another thread.

I am not pro-abortion in cases of convenience. However I do feel that in a situation such as rape, sexual abuse or incest, the well being of the child can be significantly in question and that each case should be judged individually. If it is too much for the mother to bear and raise a child, then she should have that right to choose.

As I type, my little one is in there happily booting me in the ribs, and I love that feeling more than anything else I can imagine. BUT, if she was the result of a rape or other kind of sexual abuse I'm not sure that I could cope with such a reminder.

Nobody needs to be reminded every day of their life about the trauma and abuse they suffered, and in some cases the rights of the unborn I feel are not as significant as the rights of the born and living.

There aren't many cases where I feel that way, but this is one of them.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins