Some time ago I read, in a pro-life paper, an interview with a beautiful 23 year old girl who was a medical student planning to specialize in obstetrics and gynecology. She is the child of rape. Her mother, against advice and pressure, carried her to term and raised her. She says that, in middle school, the matter of abortion came up among her peers, and a common statement was, "I'm against abortion except in cases of rape and incest." She said, "How do you think that made me feel?" After a time, she realized how to answer that statement. She asked, "Did I deserve the death penalty for my father's crime?"
What answer can be given except "No, you didn't"
Well, all too many Americans appear to think that she did. I believe that this is because most people have not thought the matter through, and have never had to answer the question, "Did I deserve the death penalty for my father's crime?"
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Pro-choice folks find it very easy to talk about offing other human beings as long as it's someone else who's getting the ax. When they bring up the case of a pregnant rape victim, I want to say, "Okay, let's see how consistent you are. If you were to find out today that the man you've always thought was your father isn't-- that you were actually conceived as the result of a sexual assault on your mother-- would you then commit suicide on the grounds that you should never have been born? If not, then you ought to stop advocating death for other innocent children who happen to have been conceived as a result of rape."
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