- Wed, Jan 12, 2011
- Prolife
What is your response to the 2008 Democratic Party platform on abortion?
Substitute “a woman’s right to choose a safe and legal abortion” with “a man’s right to rape a woman” or “a white person’s right to enslave black people” or “a Nazi’s right to kill Jews” and you will understand how repugnant this statement is to a person who believes that both Scripture and science show us that unborn children are, in fact, children. (And it is every bit as repugnant when I hear Republicans present this as their position.)
Studies conducted by the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute indicate that two consenting and fertile adults have only a 3–5 percent chance of pregnancy from an act of intercourse. They also indicate there are factors involved in a rape that further reduce these chances for rape victims.* The Institute says fourteen thousand* abortions per year are due to rape or incest, which amounts to 1 percent of all abortions.* Other studies have shown that pregnancies due to rape are much rarer, as few as one in a thousand cases.*
Note from Randy: The following article is from Feminists for Life (
