So that life inside their body has no value? Someone needs to be the voice for the voiceless. All human life is precious. You would agree that killing a baby right out of the womb is murder, would you not? So why does taking that life a few months before it makes its way out of the womb any different?
I see how people react around pregnant women, everyone would ask her about the baby. They don't ask "how is the fetus", or "how is the zygote" or whatever term pro-abortion people use to justify killing an innocent life.
I would rather a child live in poverty and have a chance at making something of themselves than never allowing them that chance at all.
If she had died it would have been a tragedy. But, that didn't happen.
If she had not had a c-section a few weeks before term they both would have died. She was too small to give birth naturally.
Two lives would have been lost instead of just the fetus with an abortion, and the girl would still have had her childhood and time to grow to womanhood before having children.
Now there is a child raising a child, without the support of parents.
Where is the logic?
The logic is there are too many "if's".
The mother nor the baby died.
Are you certain that no one is there to help the take care of the newborn?
It's amazing the lengths one goes to, to justify the taking of an innocent life.
Step father is in jail and now that she has given birth, so is her mother.
>>Erika Guevara, Americas director at Amnesty International, said in a statement that Mainumby was “lucky to be alive”, adding that “only time will tell the true extent of the physical and psychological consequences of her tragic ordeal”.
“The fact that Mainumby did not die does not excuse the human rights violations she suffered at the hands of the Paraguayan authorities, who decided to gamble with her health, life and integrity despite overwhelming evidence that this pregnancy was extremely risky,” she said.<<
Now the girls lawyer wants to place both girls back into the care of the mother who let the girl be abused by the step-father.
600 girls under the age of 14 give birth each year in Paraguay. How is this moral?
Human rights organization, including UN, officials spoke out for the right of the girl to have an abortion.
There was nothing good that came from this. So many lives in turmoil just to deny a child her childhood after being raped.
No rape victim should be denied the option of an abortion. No child not conceived in love should be forced on a woman/girl.
Sad situation when a person feels that killing an innocent life is the answer.
Can you imagine that the girl in Paraguay might in ten years from now be face to face with her rapist demanding his rights to the child or being forced to marry him and share a life with her rapist?
I don't know paraguay law, but in the US it could happen. You really think a victim should be faced with that in her future? No way to get her rapist out of her life?
It is one thing to be a rape victim of some random attack and another to know your rapist. A child raped for months or years having to be anywhere near the rapist ever again? To see the rapist in the face of the child? To be forced to share custody even while he is in jail? To be obligated by the court to take the child to see the rapist?
OMG! A swear the intelligence and the knowledge about women who have been victims of rape is next to nil, at least it seem that way judging by some of the posters.
No victim of rape wants to be reminded over and over of the rape. A girl or woman has be free to heal and move beyond and pick up the pieces of her life. Not nine month later or nineteen years later. The idea of being connected to the rapist is disgusting. I would have run in front of a bus. To meet him again, even the chance, to awaken the horrors all over again and be terrified and traumatized like it was just yesterday. That is insane.
Anyone that thinks a rape victim can wait nine month and just get beyond the rape is down right bonkers.
No rape victim should have to give birth and legally she is given the option of an abortion. No woman should ever have to live through a rape and she certainly should not have to be reminded over and over of what she experienced.
Most rape is by a man she or the family knows not some stranger. I'd shoot the man if I could and plead insanity. The though of seeing the man again would send chills down my spine. In some case where the girl might know the person, not report it and chance to meet the man in a social setting and not able to scream or attack him? In some places there is statute of limitation to report or charge the man.
The details and ifs and ors of every case should not be hashed out. This is not a law class.
No one should take the access of abortions away from the woman.
