The mother, who may not even want to be a mother, shouldn't be forced to give birth to a child resulting from such a traumatic event. It may be detrimental to the mother's mental health, and would put the child in a bad position. The child would possibly be put up for adoption, which is also not ideal, as the foster care system is no place for a child to grow up.

Overall the choice should be with who has to deal with being pregnant physically, emotionally, and mentally. Whether their father is a criminal or not, the mother just may choose to not conceive the baby due to personal which can include domestic cases and the only connection between the mother and father is a child.

Abortion is some thing that should be a choice. you should not have to carry a baby especially if someone was r worded.

This is a unconsionable since the children weren't the ones involved in the act. It is their parents decisions and mind, they are their own person

because you cannot guarantee that the life the child would be given would be better off. most cases parents choose to abort because they do not have the proper resources to take care of a child

It is cells inside of a uterus, not a baby. The first two weeks are called the germinal stage. Third to eighth is embryotic. If you take it out of the uterus before 24 weeks it will not survive and grow. If you get raped and impregnated you have every right to keep it, but if it is not your body you don't get a say on what happens. It's a parasite, using its host to grow.

Making a person go through pregnancy because of someone else's decision is less merciful than allowing a baby to be born to someone who didn't make the decision to have them.

Nobody should die because of their parents past. These children have the right to live. Just because their parents aren't good people doesn't mean that they will be just like them. They have an opportunity to be better.

A woman should have the right to choose till the fetus is viable outside the body then it’s for health of mom or if baby is severely deformed and will die at birth

I feel like the mother should choose if she wants the child or not, but if they choose not to have the child they should not wait until the last minute to decide.

due to the mark a rapist can leave on a woman especially a woman or may not have wanted a child then. most mothers do it to better therself and give the child a better home. it should be okay if its what you want to do

as a woman who has been sexually assaulted multiple times by multiple different men, if i were forced to have the child of the man who caused me the amount of pain i was in, i would have simply killed myself. not only is it not fair to me, but it would not be fair to the child either: i cannot love a child that was born of a monster. that child would have grown up and lived a horrible life. every time i would have looked in their eyes i would have seen their father and i know that for a fact because even today there are still people i look at and see him. forcing a woman to have a child with…  Read more the man who raped her is one of the worst things someone could do. we do not execute the children of criminals because they already have a life they are living. unborn children are simply that, unborn, meaning whether they are aborted or not it will not affect the rest of the world.

I think the person who is having the baby should have the right to do what they wish with their baby

the person who was raped didn't have the choice and a rapist doesn't have the right to have that child.

Even though we do not kill those children, the choice of the matter is not up to anyone and should not be up to anyone besides the parent(s). This comment acts as though it is a government decision that would kill those babies, when in reality, abortions come from the person carrying it, not the government. I believe there needs to be counseling and informed sessions prior to the abortion, however it is the parents choice alone.

Kill them all.. **** them, why bring more lives into this world when there are more children that need homes than people who need children. Why give that child that way of life and damage them? Why force that mother to go through that pain. Mind your own damn business

The children of rapists are not being “killed.” The unborn bundle of cells inside a woman who was raped would be being removed from her body. A bundle of cells is not more important than a living woman.

Rape should not be linked and compared to terrorism and murder as they are two COMPLETELY different things. If a women is not ready to have kids then they should either carry it out full term and go for adoption or during those 4 weeks where the FETUS is cannot even be considered a living human get an abortion.

It's the womans choice, imagine your daught comes home crying because she got raped, now you force her to have the child, that child can end up ruining her life if she isn't ready mentally, and financially. Abortion should also be avaiviable for everyone, not only rape victims.

It does not have to do with who the parent of the child is. The well-being of the child matters more. That child could possibly live a horrible life the mother may not be ready to become a mother, why should she be forced to. It was not her choice to be raped she should not have to have the child of her rapist which could remind her of the trauma she went through. I am not saying that the child is a burden but it is her body and she deserves to make a choice. Who knows if the woman is mentally capable of taking care of this child. If the woman decides to have the child and put it into foster…  Read more care who knows if that child will ever find a home or even be treated like a human. The foster system is broken there are many foster homes that abuse children or treat them as less. No child should go through this. That is why the mother should have the choice to abort her child so that their is no risk of the child being mistreated.

Giving birth is a sacred event someone with a uterus may go through however it is only sacred when the person is willing. It should be a crime to be forced to go through such a traumatic event you are not prepared for or don't want to happen. Forcing someone with a uterus to give birth can not only kill the person but gives no hope for an unwanted child as well. The argument of abortion is ridiculous when at the end of the day it is not your body and not your decision to make. People coming to the conclusion that abortion may be okay only if its rape is not human and disgusting because it shows the reality that people do not have the right to their own body.

Because a fetus is not a child. A fetus also does not have a right to more control over the person carrying it than that person themselves. If you can't force one person to donate their blood for another person, you cannot force a person to carry a fetus. Every human is entitled to control over their own body. Since a fetus is not a developed human, it should not control the person it is inside.

If the mother does not want to keep her child, that is completely her choice. She can get an abortion if she wants, and if the reason for that is who the father of her child is.

People make mistakes every day, if someone is not equipped to properly take care and provide for a child then they should not be legally forced to have the child. If someone is raped and become pregnant it is ridiculous to force that person to have that baby, which would be a constant reminder of the event.

Victims of rape or incest should be allowed to have access to abortion care because the victims of the rape or incest should be allowed to choose what happens to the baby that is conceived. While it does take two to conceive a baby, if one of those people in that situation didn't consent to the sex, then they should have the right to do whatever they want with the child regardless of the opinion of the rapist because it's the victim's body. It's their choice whether to keep the baby or not.

Rapists inflict trauma to many women and many of those don’t want to remember the traumatic events that took place, and taking care of a child takes a lot so going through the pregnancy won’t even be worth the pain the women went through

I disagree that it is a child. abortion up to a certain point of pregnancy should be protected for these special cases.

The mother doesn't want the memory of the rapist and they should not have to deal with the Bourdain of raising a rapists child when they did not want the kid

It is removing a child from a women’s body that solely relies on her and isn’t its own creation yet. Also, women do not want to give life to a mans child who took their life, and identity away either.

No one is getting one a month before due, the latest I can think of someone getting one is a month or two in. And if they are banned people are either going to get them dangerously, or throw themselves down stairs to get rid of it.

If a women or child was harmed in the making of the child they are more likely to kill or abandon the child themselevs. Many families can not afford children. Some people genetics will cause the child to suffer if it's born or there body can't handle a child and will kill the person giving birth.