Quote Originally Posted by Evil_Maniac From Mars
If the mother is raped, she has not made any sort of descision or accepted any sort of risk in having a child - it has been forced upon her. Nonetheless, I believe after a rape, which she could not have prevented, she has a right to choose. What if a fourteen year old girl is raped and becomes pregnant? Should her life just disappear? The reason that this is such a big issue in America is that no side can see the other. There needs to be a level of compromise. Abortion cannot either be illegal altogether or completely legal - there needs to be a clause for exceptions or for regulations, depending which side you're on.

I see abortion where the mother has a very good chance of dying as terrible, but necessary. I can only imagine what sort of psycological harm that must do to the mother.
How can you say "well the mother had no choice, so the child suffers" that arguement can be extended...

The mother didn't choose a Downs child...a child with a cleft pallette....a dyslexic child...a girl.

Slippery slope.

I don't think you can have shades of grey here.