{"id":267627,"date":"2022-05-16T14:36:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=267627"},"modified":"2022-05-16T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T20:53:52","slug":"pregnancy-circumstance-life-affirming-abortion-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pregnancy-circumstance-life-affirming-abortion-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Every pregnancy circumstance has a life-affirming solution. Abortion is not a ‘need.’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prior to the Roe v. Wade<\/em>\u00a0draft opinion leak, CNN ran a story<\/a> that argued women will be less successful without the ability to kill their children at will. The CNN thesis? Women need abortions.\u00a0The \u201cneeds\u201d relayed in the piece vary, from sexual assault to simply not wanting to be pregnant. Regardless of any and all reasons presented in the CNN piece, if a baby\u2019s heart beats by 21 days, and abortion stops a beating heart \u2014 both of which are scientific facts \u2014 committing abortions for any reason still results in the death of innocent human beings.<\/p>\n

Pregnancy, rape, and abortion<\/h3>\n

The CNN story starts with a woman who became pregnant from rape. While this is an awful event, it should be met with compassion, offers of help (financial, emotional, and otherwise), but not a sudden edict that discriminates against the innocent baby.<\/p>\n

However, as pro-life author and minister Randy Alcorn points out in his piece<\/a> addressing abortion in cases of rape or incest, \u201cStudies conducted by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute … conducted a write-in survey of 1,160 women in 2004 and found 1.5 percent of abortions were reported as due to rape or incest. Another of their studies cited one percent.\u00a0Other studies have shown that pregnancies due to rape are much rarer, as few as one in a thousand cases.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alcorn adds, \u201cPro-choice advocates divert attention from the vast majority of abortions by focusing on rape because of its well-deserved sympathy factor. Their frequent references to it leave the false impression that pregnancy due to rape is common, rather than rare… . And why is it that pro-choice advocates are always saying the unborn child is really the mother\u2019s, not the father\u2019s, until she is raped \u2014 then suddenly the child is viewed as the father\u2019s, not the mother\u2019s? The point is not how a child was conceived but that he was conceived. He is not a despicable \u2018product of rape.\u2019 He is a unique and wonderful creation of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The woman in the CNN piece, Meg Shurr, ironically, works for the Guttmacher Institute now, so she would have access to the very information that Alcorn cites, knowing that despite her terrible situation, her case is not common.\u00a0Yet even in the rare cases when abortion takes place due to rape, it still is not acceptable. Abortion adds more violence and trauma to the violence and trauma the rape survivor has already experienced; many survivors who underwent an abortion afterwards found that it made their pain even worse. Meanwhile, the preborn child is innocent. The crime of his or her father does not transfer; they do not deserve a death sentence for a wrong committed by someone else.<\/p>\n