Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #41
We don't put rapists to death. Why would we put the innocent child conceived during a rape to death?
I have a sister who is adopted.
Some time after reaching adulthood, she successfully tracked down her biological mother, and learned of the circumstances of her conception and birth.
I think the term “rape baby” is offensive. It implies that the child conceived in rape bears some culpability for that crime, and for the subsequent trauma to the mother. My sister was certainly an example of such circumstances, under which many would have defended the “right” of her biological mother to have had her killed. Fortunately for my sister, and for all the lives she has touched, her biological mother chose to let her live, and to put her up for adoption. My sister has five children, and one grandchild—that's six more human beings who would not have lived, if she had not been allowed to live. The impact on humanity as a whole is immeasurable. It's like the point that is made in It's a Wonderful Life, about how every life affects so many others, and that removing one has more impact than you can imagine.
Those of you who would have denied my sister's humanity, and her right to live, her right to exist, purely because of the adverse circumstances under which she was conceived, I'm sure that most of you have not the faintest glimmer of understanding of the true significance of what it is you would have been denying. To deny the humanity and right to life of an innocent child is obvious enough, and bad enough, but you have no idea of the impact that that child will have, or would have had, on others.