"Eisboch" wrote in message
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"JoeSpareBedroom" wrote in message
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If your daughter was raped and you started talking to her about
statistics, I wonder how she'd react.


See? The rape thing again.

Eisboch

It's important because there are cults which think they can dictate the
options available to a rape victim. You can't exclude inconvenient facts
from the discussion, unless you'd like to say it's over for now.


My point is that the majority of abortions, I believe, are performed not
because of a rape, but because a resulting pregnancy following voluntary
sex where no precautions were taken happens to be embarrassing or
inconvenient.

That may be. I don't know. A call to Planned Parenthood would probably shed
some light on the question.



Rape is a different issue and much more difficult to resolve in my mind,
although I'd probably go along with having abortion a legal option in it's
case or in the event of a problematic pregnancy whereby the mother's life
may be in danger.

But now, we come back to another sticky subject: What if a 16 year old girl
is raped, becomes pregnant, and her parents raise hell because she wants an
abortion? Who should have the right to decide? The parents, or the girl?


Whatever happened to the fathers with shotguns?

You're talking to one, and I don't even have a daughter. I told my son "Your
girlfriends are, by default, my daughters. Don't start with me." He
understands.