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It's true-rape victims are just that-victims. There is no sense in creating TWO victims out of a rape. Those children have just as much right as anyone to live. My daughter was not concieved out of love...but I loved her from the second I knew she was on her way. She deserved a chance at life and now, 7 months later, I look at her face and see a little reflection of myself. She is my joy and my everything and I'm proud to say that I chose to give her life.
Pro-choice people have the choice to have sex. That is where their choices should stop-at sex. Beyond that I think that children should have the full protection of the law behind them. The only remaining Choice should be whether or not that mother wants to parent. Not whether or not she should kill her baby. There are millions of families out there that would glady welcome her child into their homes if she doesn't want it. She should not have the option of infantcide because the baby is "inconvienent" or some other random excuse.
I've known women who have had abortions. They would give their entire lives just to have that child back. One of these women told me (she had an abortion at 15), "I would love to have him come up to my door someday and meet me. He would have been 23 today..." In that case she wishes she had chosen adoption.
on a related note: john kerry is very outspoken in his pro-choice standing. It's hard to see where he is going with this since he changes his viewpoint for each different crowd he is in front of but he is undecidedly pro-choice. How can he rant and rave about child education and medicaid for the needy and medicare for the elderly but completely disregard the most vunerable of life? I think if you don't have respect for some life, you don't have respect for all life. This is kerry: he is lobbying with a pregnant mother to have an abortion because it is "her choice." All the sudden she goes into labor. He is still telling her that there is time...there is still time. She gives birth to a beautiful baby girl and kerry runs up to cuddle and kiss her and tell her that he is working hard for her future.
hmm...
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