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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Response to Elise Cooper About her article, The Rape Exception ~by Darlene Pawlik
American Thinker published an article by Elise Cooper. Her
title, The Rape Exception, got attention. The message was that Republicans
should leave the exceptions in laws. It is this thinking that has brought us
abortion on demand.
I will take this apart paragraph by paragraph. Elise’s first
assertion, in paragraph 1, is that rape conception is extremely rare. Rape is
grossly underreported. Even so, the reported number of rape conception is significant.
About 32,000 pregnancies per year are a result of rape.
Elise interviewed experts who have dealt with victims. That
needs to be qualified. Were they first responders, investigators, or long-term
healthcare workers? Dealing with rape is a process, not an event. Rape is a
traumatic, core violation.
A first responder cannot have the same knowledge as a person
who engages her over time. Trauma skews everything. Perspective, emotions, logic,
attitude, perception of time, decision-making, and concentration are negatively
affected.
In paragraph 2, Elise tells us that many Republicans are in
agreement with the majority of Americans that exceptions should be made. The
majority of the Early American South were said to approve of slavery. Does that make it right?
Just because others believe something, doesn’t make it right.
It is objectively wrong to kill another human being. You
would say it is wrong to kill you, right now. Why?
In paragraph 3, Elise talked to an unnamed psychologist. The
title of psychologist is supposed to convey authority, but there are three
completely disjointed sentences there. What does the death penalty and Second
Amendment have to do with taking an innocent life in the womb on moral grounds?
Guns are the great equalizer. Loss of life can occur? Victims of rape are not
afforded the same parameters? Wait what?
Is our psychologist suggesting the child deserves the death
penalty for the crime of his or her father? Even those who rape do not deserve
the death penalty, according to the Supreme Court. Only the most violent
criminals are sentenced to death, but not without due process and among a jury
of their peers. Is our psychologist suggesting the mother should be above the
law? Should she be allowed to decide execution on her own?
What exactly is the psychologist saying here anyway?
Paragraph 4 emphasizes the trauma of rape, but concludes by
suggesting that forcing children to carry their children to term is bad. The
point is that she is already pregnant. She is already a mom. She knows there is
a baby. It’s her baby. The police officer is quoted to say, “Would you force
her to have the child of a horrible person?”
I know children of horrible people. I don’t think we should
kill them because their parents are horrible.
She has been traumatized by rape. If you have seen what
happens during abortion, you would agree that is another trauma. When she
regains her ability to cope and she begins to heal from the rape, then the abortion, she will again be traumatized. She needs support and
help to get through after rape. She does not need to be further victimized.
The police officer insists that choice is the key. What is
the choice? Let’s be perfectly clear. The choice referred to is chopping up a
baby and pulling that child from his mother’s womb. This leaves a mother of a
dead baby. She is no less the victim of rape, but has compounded the impact to
include the death of her child.
Elise tells us the officer has a good point. Then tells us
that a UN report says that ISIS is torturing, raping and killing. Among those
injured, was a nine year old, pregnant by rape. Why force her to relive nine
months of torture? But, did she know immediately? One doesn’t usually know
their pregnant for four to six weeks or more. So, it’s not nine months. That is
disingenuous at best and a lie designed to cause confused compassion at worst.
She can be managed through her pregnancy with loving care
and medical intervention that protects both patients, mom and baby. Caring for both, instead of intentionally killing.
Paragraph 6 is the only one that makes sense to me. I was
conceived by violent rape, sexually abused as a child, sold into sex
trafficking, and I conceived a child as a result. I have experienced this. If
you have not, you cannot fully understand. That is why Elise should have
interviewed people from this demographic.
Paragraph 7 takes us back to ‘her choice’. We must always
define “choice”. This prosecutor deals with victims during their trauma. That
is a temporary situation. Pregnancy is also always temporary. We must never
make permanent decisions based on temporary situations.
In paragraph 8,9, 10 and 11 we are told the choice to kill
the child is based on paternity. There are hundreds of thousands of men in
prison. Should their children be killed? They are a reminder to their moms. Is the
two-year-old child of a rapist on the table? They are more expensive. They need
more resources. They aren’t as easily adopted as a newborn. Should she kill
her?
If it is the mom’s choice, without anyone else intervening,
why couldn’t she kill her teenage son, if his father rapes her or someone else
for that matter?
In paragraph 12, we are reminded that laws preventing
rapists from getting custody need to spread across the country. A woman, who
carried to term and raised her baby, was notified that he now wanted access to
the child. This is a horrifying scenario on many levels. Even if he an adult-only
rapist, mom would be terrified every moment her little one is with him. If not,
the child would be subjected to incestuous sexual abuse.
Sexual abuse is a core violation. It has a lifelong impact.
Ms. Cooper concludes her article stating that all
interviewed said that the exception should be based on a woman’s choice. She
should have interviewed us at Savethe1.
She says that women who become pregnant by rape should
decide if they want to continue or prevent it.
Sorry, Elise, if she’s pregnant, she has a baby. The choice
was already taken away from her. Her choice now, is to be the mother of a live
baby or a dead one.
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