in the blogosphere. I've been making a concerted effort to attract more visitors to my blog, so I've been posting on political websites and providing a link to my site. Well, my post about the hot mike elicited this comment from some faceless pro-abort. (Yes, the second part was all caps and in red, no less.)
WERE IT UP TO SARAH PALIN,
A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL,
PREGNANT BECAUSE HER DADDY RAPED HER,
MUST BEAR THE CHILD OF HER FATHER."
This was my reply:
Yes, I believe that there are thugs in this world who would slaughter me and my family just for my difference in religion. I also feel that the lives of the majority of Iraqis are worth protecting from those thugs -- you see, I don't discriminate just because I can't see someone or haven't met them.
The same is true of the child of that 13-year-old rape victim. Why should that young woman be shamed into believing that there is something wrong with her child? She and her child are innocent victims of a horrendous act.
Why should she have her child ripped from her just because of the circumstances of how that innocent one entered this world? It is the rapist who should be ashamed and scorned and held accountable.
The young woman and her child should be embraced, told that they have done nothing wrong and that they both can hold their heads high.
A member of Feminists for Life, who was the product of a rape, once said: I have a right to be here.
And her mother said: She was the only good thing that came out of that horrible experience.
Why do we assume that young women are too weak to stand up for themselves and their children? When will society stop acting as though they couldn't possibly get through even the most difficult of times? If they need our love and support, we should be there for them -- not just make them feel that "of course, it's what you're expected to do."
Rape victims who abort have said they feel like they were violated twice. First by their rapist, and then by an abortionist. Both times being forced to do something they never would have chosen to do.
There are two other maddening aspects: First is that it is often the abuser who forces the abortion. Victims of incest are dragged to clinics by their abusers to destroy the "evidence."
Second, the workers at the clinics stand by and don't report what is obviously child abuse. Letting these youngest victims fall through the cracks -- rationalizing that they are merely young women who made the "mature decision" to have sex -- as if *any* 13-year-old should be having sex -- all because the sacred rite of abortion should never be questioned...
Yeah, that Sarah Palin. She believes in the value of all young women and their children. How dare she.
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