Re: ** The Trump Thread SAFE SPACE ** (NO Personal Attacks; NO Trolling)
I'm trying to word this carefully because it will almost certainly be twisted, but the allowance of a rape/incest exception by the right has always been slightly off-putting to me because it feels like it implies that an unwanted pregnancy is an acceptable punishment for irresponsible sex in most cases, but it's not for rape/incest victims because they didn't choose that action.
Now, rape/incest victims certainly deserve our sympathy, love and support for the terrifying events they had to go through, but so do all mothers of unwanted pregnancies. I don't want to judge any of them for what specific events led to their unwanted pregnancy and act like some are more or less deserving of getting out of the punishment of pregnancy. It's always a scary, life-altering development for someone not expecting it and anyone in that position deserves support.
But the pro-life movement is supposed to be about protecting the life inside the mother and not at all about the events that led to that life being there. I don't know why the organized pro-life movement gets baited into talking about this rape/incest issue because it implies that we are judging the means by which that life arrives in the womb, when it shouldn't matter - the life is there and they should do their best to protect it.
And I feel like in today's world the best way to protect it is to figure out policy that encourages women to carry a baby to term and gives her all the support in terms of leave, employment protection, etc., whether they intend to keep the baby or give it up for adoption. I don't think that necessarily has to be in place before abortion is outlawed - because again, if you believe it is a life then the deaths have to stop now - but some acknowledgment that they empathize with the issues faced by ALL mothers of unwanted pregnancy instead of just mothers from rape and incest, and are working towards ways to support them, would make their stance on abortion a lot easier to swallow IMO.
Last edited by MOWJO8185; 05-20-2019 at 10:00 AM.
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