Abortion in the case of rape or incest

You have spent a lifetime building a house. It has a tornado shelter and a hatch.

One day you see a twister on the horizon. You dive into your beloved, well-stocked shelter and lie flat. The roof shears away. The walls fall in. The hatch rattles harder and harder.

The wind stops and the hatch groans. Someone is breaking in. Robbers.

They beat you and raid your stock as you struggle to your feet. You see two children with them, abduction victims, a girl around four, a boy around eight or nine. They each grab the boy and run with half your supplies on their backs.

The wind starts up again. Bruised and dazed, you tie the hatch together and hope for the best. Then you realize it could be a long wait, and they left the little girl behind. She's eating your biscuits and drinking your water. She's knocked over one of the last standing shelves.

She's a stranger. You never asked for her and you don't want her. You're not ready to be a parent. This all happened to you and now you have to deal with her? It seems beyond unfair, too much to comprehend, that life can throw so much at you. But here she is. And she has no idea you don't want her.

It would be easy to push her outside. The robbers might come back and take her. They'd probably end up killing her if they did, or the falling poles and flying debris would. It would be a cruel death for the child, but a small temporary relief for you, until you healed enough to understand what that would mean -- that you killed a child who did nothing to you.

So, what are your rights? What would heal every innocent person in the scenario most? What would end up hurting the innocent more? What would bring the guilty -- the robbers -- to justice?

Your house can be rebuilt. Your shelter can be restocked and repaired. By all rights, the robbers should be the ones to do the work, but since you might not want them in your house again, it makes sense to put them in prison and make them work there for a fund for you, which you can use to heal.

The little girl will be returned to her home when her parents claim her. Until then, she ought to be in foster care. You can care for her for now and call on friends to help. Anyone who is a real friend would help you at a time like this. If you have no one to turn to, a church or other charitable organization will help you.
You need to have your injuries treated. So does the child.

THE CHILD ISN'T AN INJURY. THE CHILD IS A PERSON.

The robbers must be imprisoned. You must be healed. The innocent child you ended up sharing shelter and nourishment with must be cared for as any child. She's been through a lot too.

That's an analogy. If you became pregnant as a result of rape, your child isn't the one who raped you. Some man did that, and he's a vicious criminal who belongs in maximum security rotting away while working for a fund for your healing. The child didn't do anything. Killing the child won't help you. It will hurt you again.

In any debate, always keep in mind what the topic is. In an abortion debate, the topic is the tearing limb from limb and skull-crushing of a child who did nothing wrong.

Allowing victims of a crime to punish -- with execution, and in a manner of brutality no modern country would stoop to in executing anyone -- limb from limb, finally crushing the skull -- another person, not the perpetrator but someone who never heard of the perpetrator: This makes no sense. Killing the child won't punish the perpetrators in any way. It will allow their values to prevail.

Saving the child won't reward the perpetrators or punish the victim in any way. It will allow life, love and new hope the chance to win. That's the most healing way for both victims.

A rational, kind, loving policy would be to make the perpetrators work in prison to support the victims' healing and the daycare expenses of the child, who is another innocent victim.

A barbaric, nightmare society would execute the infant child of the perpetrator, who is also the child of the victim. We don't want to live in a barbaric, nightmare society.