"Or doubling the evil by forcing a woman to carry a life-long reminder of one of if not the worst day of her life? If she wants to have the child great. But how can you force a woman to carry what she might see as the spawn of the devil? And risk her committing suicide, abusing or abandoning the child? So many bad possibilities there. It's easy to sit here and pass judgement but try to put yourself in her shoes."
For starters, rape and incest represents only 1% of all reasons why people get abortions. So we should never pretend that taking this away somehow casts this huge burden on the vast majority of people getting abortions. In other words, 99% of the time, it was 100% preventable.
Two, evil is evil, whether or not you had evil done to you. Just because that terrible thing happened, does not mean that you should be allowed to kill a life. That is some ancient blood revenge way of thinking. So before we put ourselves in "her shoes," we need to actually understand where the boundaries should be.
Three, life has to be sacred and protected or else society goes off the rails. In fact, I challenge you, name a time and place in history where human life was devalued and we became arbiters about who should live and who shouldn't, and show me how it did not lead to some of the craziest atrocities in human history.
