It's all about choice. I'm pro-choice as all get out, which means it's the rape victim's choice to decide what's best for her

I can't imagine being able to love the result of being raped. The most important thing is that each woman has to understand her own limitations. I only had one child because I feel like I have a limited amount of love to give and wouldn't have felt as much for a second child.

Who says what’s immoral or not immoral?Morality is a matter of opinion and Geographic location of individual ,religious upbringing,etc,

Another way to phrase this is: "Is it okay to kill an embryo/fetus/baby/human to pay for the sins of their parent?"

I find it interesting that people avoid talking about the embryo/fetus/baby/human animal.

Let's talk about it. For a moment consider it as a newly fertilized egg, an embryo. Now how can science and agnosticism inform the woman facing such a situation?

Well, science tells us that the embryo is simply a ball of chemicals, but not just any random set. These are chemicals that have a 3.5 billion year lineage. They came from a set of self-replicating chemicals long ago, that survived by chance, albeit a better chance than most. All it has to do to survive is replicate itself before it got destroyed. We all come from this line of self-replicating batch of chemicals. Every single one of our ancestors, from primordial life onwards, have lived long enough to self-replicate, have children, before death. We all come from a long line of survivors. When we look at that embryo and ourselves we should see that.

We should also see that without any outside interference, the embryo will likely and naturally lead to the birth of a human child at the direct expense of the mother and very likely her family. The embryo, due to the event of rape, has started a path, the arc from life to death. The sperm cannot do this, the egg cannot do this. Only the embryo has the ability to transform to a human animal in the woman's uterus.

Agnosticism informs us that there we don't know that there is an after life, and science informs us there very likely isn't. The same thing can be said about the soul. This means that this life is the only one the embryo will ever get to experience.

With all that in mind, I ask, should an embryo be destroyed simply because one of it's biological parents commited a heinous crime? Shouldn't we instead punish the criminal, and not blame a child?

That said I am trying to think about "genetic lineage rights". We all inherited our genes, and we are the custodians, the protectors of it, before we pass it on. We may not like it but perhaps a parent should have the right to decide which genes pass on. And this may results it an action that is deeply upsetting. Well, its upsetting to me: that a parent may be given the right to kill their child based on genetic lineage rights. Is protecting the genes more important than the life carrying it? I feel that it isn't, but I have no logic behing it yet.

Anyways, at no point, using science and agnosticism, can I find any reason to destroy an embryo, essentially for a parent to kill a child based on the wrongs of suffured at the hand of the other parent. Punish the wrongdoer, not it's child.

That's all the sense I can make of it.

Good point. I believe is she wants it she should have it no question asked but on the other hand if she wish to have it That is her choice also. Every situation and women is different. Controversial question.

I am pro-life but this should be a woman's choice alone.

The best method for avoiding this situation is 100% safe and effective contraceptive measures (which we, of course, don't have yet because conservatives and the church won't financially support research and development projects into).

ESPECIALLY in cases of rape or incest, no woman should EVER have to be faced with the difficult decision of whether to have an abortion or not. And no unwanted child should ever face the difficulty of being brought in to this world.

What if the cconsequence of rape is castration for the male and abortion for the female? Just thinking outside of the box here.

That is not a question I can answer, but which moral code?

Best stay away from the Bible Thumping South .