If a girl is raped and pregnant, should she keep the baby?

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You're being deterministic, here. While the foetus and the placenta might well not be the woman's body, I see that issue as entirely irrelevant. In balancing the mother's right to life, liberty and security of the person (I am using the Canadian formulation of that right, others will need to read this mutatis mutandis), against a putative right held by a being that has not yet become a person in law, there is no argument--the rights of a life in being prevail over putative rights of a life that is not yet a legal person.

But even if we were to create a legal framework in which a foetus' had a right to life, the law would still be obliged to balance those competitive interests. So even if we were to change the law to impute legal personality to a foetus, we would still not have a determination of the instant question, because the same right is being contested by both parties.

Generally speaking, in conflicting disputes, I will come down on the side that best permits both parties interests to be least infringed. That is why I set my political and legal tolerance for abortion at the limit of viability.

Prior to twenty weeks gestational age (based on current medical knowedge and practice), any right to life possessed by the foetus is moot--the death of the mother will necessarily involve the death of the foetus. The foetus cannot, I suggest, be described as having a crystalized right because the foetus cannot exercise that right independently of its physical link to its mother. (As opposed to, say, a profoundly disabled person who can still independently exercise an independent right to life with reliance upon equipment such as a respirator.)

[Damn. How different are you from an abuser really, if your compassion is that conditional? I've never got the idea that vengeful people really cared about the victims. I more get the idea they are bloodthirsty but care too much about the law and what people think of them to say such things about people who haven't done anything wrong.

How fitting from someone who has deeply analyzed all of my fallacious misuses of logic within the few months they've been here to provide a non-answer with the misplaced naming of a fallacy.

Really? oh sorry to doubt your reasoning abilities, I was so mistaken to think that giving mothers the legal right to kill their 15 year old children had nothing to do with abortion, even when the fetus in question is within the legal 3 months timeframe. How idiotic of me.

Ban abortion for everyone and thus admit you just hate women.

Two options:
1. Ban abortion for everyone and thus admit you just hate women.
2. Let every woman have abortions even if sex was consensual.

I'd like number #2.

[Do all women opposed to abortion hate women?]

no

People who think that pro-lifers are inherently misogynistic need to stop being f***ing dipsh**s.

If a girl is raped and pregnant, should she keep the baby?

You really think that is anyone's motive for being in favor of the life of the unborn not being cut short?