In this forum I have never seen a Pro-Choice poster turn tail and run....only Anti-choicers....and there has been two or three in the last few days. The ""Post and Pontificate Then Turn Tail and Run from Those INCONVENIENT Questions Crowd"".
My adopted sister, 5 years older than me, was a product of rape and adopted from a children's home when she was about 3 or so.
That is a wonderful outcome of a terrible event. Some women are able to do this, carry the child and give them up to a loving family. IMHO this is great! Some women are not able to handle doing so....some of them view it a continuation of their rape. However, it was the choice of the victim to handle the situation in this way...her choice and no one else.
Heres the questions from me that Unifier or any anti-abortion poster did not want to answer, I can quite understand your reluctance to discuss or explore the subject, but do you think the story of one positive outcome is really exploring the subject. Start with exploring rape, gang rape, rape by your father, rape of a underage girl, rape as a form of warfare, rape by a boyfriend or husband, wishing to get the girl pregnant to keep a hold over her. Think about the physical damage done by rape, up to and including rape so violent the woman may never be able to have another child. Rape where the woman is tortured, in Cornwall a women literally had her eyes plucked out by her ex boyfriend. Rape where the victim is left with a disease, HIV possibly. Then there is the social stigma of being a single mother. There is a poster on here who loves to call people bastards, how will you defend the women against people like that. Lets say the child is your grandson, will you tell him to tell other kids at school who call him a bastard, "its ok my mum was raped" Have you considered all the above? And so much more. Remember the only thing Unifier could offer a 12 year old was that ultimately it was her fault for not seeing her rape and pregnancy as an opportunity! If only I could of convinced her that she choose her destiny, her victimhood was not the product of a Rapist or the scum who forced her to have the child. No, it was how a 12 year old saw her choices! Positive Mental Attitude would of got her better. All the psychiatric help we sought, all the loving friends she had and what she should of done was just put the past behind her, rejoice in her rapists child, best foot forward and all that. Do you think we did not try everything we could? Do you think we sat around feeling sorry for her? Unifier I truly wish you never face a situation where the wound is to deep to be resolved by a bit of self help book simple philosophising.
How does anyone actually know these things? Not that I'm doubting it, but surely a child's background should be confidential. But, anyway, well, so what? If the mother chose to give birth to the child of her rapist, then good for her, but if she was forced to do that, then that is shocking.
