Abortion Debate (As Scheduled)

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Anyway, back to the subject on hand. You guys just ain't gonna let me concentrate on my finals, are you? :P I personally do not think that abortion should ever be legal, and here is why. I used to think that it should be legal for rape cases or times when the mother's life was on the line, and then it should be the mother's choice. Here is why I changed my mind.
In the case of rape, someone viciously assaulted someone else, and committed a crime against a human being. Does that mean that we should retaliate and commit another crime against a human being? Sure, she did not ask to be raped and bear the child, but the rapist forced it on her, and has to be punished for his crime. The baby should not be the one punished for the rapists crime. Abort the rapist, not the innocent kid! O wait, I forgot. All the people who are for killing innocent children are the ones against killing evil murderers and rapists. That makes a lot of sense. The rapist committed the crime, not the baby. Let the baby be born, then she can put it up for adoption if she does not want it. It is not right that the woman has to carry the baby, it is a wrong the rapist did to her. That does not mean that the baby should pay for the wrong though. It is innocent and did not maliciously put itself into her womb.
As far as when the mother's life is on the line, that just seems too much like playing God to me. By natural selection one person is gonna die and another is not, what right do we have to come in and kill the hope of the survivor? What I mean is that the kid is innocent, and isn't trying to kill the mother, so why does it deserve to die? Likewise if it was a case of the mother would live but the baby was gonna die, and they could cut the mother up in a way that would save the baby's life but kill the mother, I would say no. The mother is innocent and does not deserve to die. It was natural selection that selected her to live.
When you think of it a little deeper, that is like a husband knowing his wife will die if she does not get a healthy organ transplant and there are no doners with the right type, so he takes a chainsaw and murders his daughter to get her organ so that he can save his wife. You can't kill your children to save yourself, it is just not right.

All that said, the only time that I am not sure of is incest. I unfortunately have not made my mind up on that one. There are communities where the population is the result of inbred relationships, and most of them are just normal people. On the other hand very close incest esp can really make an unatural mess of a kid with extreme physical and mental disorders. I don't know, it seems so wrong, yet killing it seems so wrong. I guess I will have to wait until I find more out about it.