Abortion is Still Murder

Q: What if a very young girl (aged under 15) gets pregnant because she is raped, and abortion is illegal in her country? How is that fair on the young girl? She was raped, she didn’t ‘choose’ to have sex so that’s not an argument.
https://www.quora.com/What-if-a-very-young-girl-aged-under-15-gets-pregnant-because-she-is-raped-and-abortion-is-illegal-in-her-country-How-is-that-fair-on-the-young-girl-She-was-raped-she-didn-t-choose-to-have-sex-so-that-s-not-an/answer/Hans-Georg-Lundahl-1

Hans-Georg Lundahl

none/ apprx Masters in Latin (language) & Greek (language), Lund University

3 years ago

While it is perhaps unfair on her, it would be still more unfair to the unborn baby to abort it, and it is clearly not always the choice of such young mothers to abort, they are more than once under pressure when doing it.

Even a girl of 12 or 13 would agree it wasn’t the baby who raped her.

I

Person

2 years ago

Pregnancy can be very dangerous. Especially if it’s going to be a child or 11, or so. Why not a legal abortion?

Hans-Georg Lundahl

11.V.2025

In an emergency when there is a question of saving one life or none at all, I wouldn’t punish a doctor saving the mother if he did no other act to kill the baby.

II

Person

2 years ago

But it’s not a baby, it’s an underdeveloped mass. Also, this would probably lead to the mother setting the baby up for adoption. We might end up with a lot of parentless children. How is it fair to make them suffer the ‘cruelties’ of life? Also, it’s still an underdeveloped mass.

Hans-Georg Lundahl

11.V.2025

“it’s an underdeveloped mass.”

False.

“Also, this would probably lead to the mother setting the baby up for adoption.”

I’m also for lowering the marital age, so the mother and father could marry.

“We might end up with a lot of parentless children.”

Given all childless couples who have contracepted and married late, even awaiting the lowering of marital age, not very likely.

“How is it fair to make them suffer the ‘cruelties’ of life?”

Yeah, you seem so harrassed by them, should one kill you, on that logic? If not, why not?

“Also, it’s still an underdeveloped mass.”

Also, still false.

To be clear: underdeveloped may be correct if compared to viability outside the womb, but “mass” is a totally inadequate description of a human being. Apart obviously, from weight calculations. “The boat has 25 passengers and the mass must be correctly distributed,” fine, but “mass” in this context isn’t.