This might be the basis for such an insane idea. (PDF)
They probably feel her “husband” is best suited to raise the child.:rolleyes:
I’d like to add that “prosecute that fucking asshole” should have been a choice, and an easy one to select. Rapist goes to jail, fundie family loses their asshole loved one, society is safer…it’s win*infinity.
Oh, I think that “prosecute” shouldn’t have been a choice, it should just be assumed that she’ll prosecute him.
My best friend from high school was ambushed in her own home, raped repeatedly, beaten, kidnapped, and robbed in 2005, leaving her with injuries requiring hospitalization and, I think, some surgery. Her family – HER family, not the rapists, and including her mother and father – tried to convince her not to prosecute (well, testify against) her assailant, because he was a “friend of the family” and it would be humiliating for them. Happily, she told them all to fuck themselves.
I know of other women who have chosen not to press charges against their rapists. We’re talknig 21st century women here.
Holy Zeus! Do you realize what you have done? Do you realize whom you are summoning? DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE UNLEASHED?
(It’s not an offense since I didn’t actually say the poster’s name, right? I didn’t even link to a post!)
I change it because the rational choice is actually not to execute the rapists under most circumstances, because if a rapist knows he will be executed if caught, he is more likely to kill his victim.
I’m pro-life and would have no trouble with her raising the kid with her partner. She’d need emotional support and a loving relationship to make the courageous decision not to take the life of the innocent for her father’s crimes.
Why do you think that it is necessarily better for a baby to be raised by a straight couple than a lesbian couple? Do you have any evidence for this belief?
I want to make sure we’re not equating all anti-abortion folks with the morons giving the unsolicited advice in the OP. At least a couple of us in this thread have identified as anti-abortion and indicated that we respect the mother’s choice to raise the child with her partner.
There is no “right” thing to do; her own desires are what matter.
MsWhatsit nailed it in one. There’s nothing else to do besides this.
I’m just kind of wary of attitudes like that. I mean, obviously this guy is a scumbag, but when you phrase it like that, what is the child of rape going to think if he or she ever finds out? If I heard something like that, I’d probably just think it meant I was worthless because of who my father was.
Though it does make me wonder–how many people are children of rapists. Not how many people are the product of rape, but how many people’s fathers have at some point committed rape?
I’m sure there are plenty out there, but how many of them do you think were the product of it? If a guy rapes someone, then later (or earlier) convinces a woman to have a baby with him, the fact that he got to breed had nothing to do with him being a rapist.
If the raped woman keeps the baby, then she’s pretty much selecting for it. No one should get a reproductive advantage because they’re a rapist. Of course, I actually believe that the mother should do what she wants; I’m just explaining why I never would keep a baby under those conditions barring exceptional circumstances.
Wait, if he rapes someone and then convinces (or already did convince) a woman to have a baby with him, he’s still passed on his genes. The woman who has the baby may not know he’s a rapist so it’s not a direct comparison. It’s not like the baby who is the direct product of rape is suddenly a bad seed compared to the baby who has the same father but came from a consensual coupling.
In my ideal society she would have beaten him up before he could rape her. (Of course I don’t know the circumstances so I don’t know if it would have been possible in this case.)
You don’t have my choice which is do what she wants as it’s not the public’s business in anyway. She should tell the general public that are vocally against whatever she chooses to go to hell.
Because there was no “whatever she chooses to do”, I voted “raising child with her partner”, since that WAS her choice. That was what SHE felt was best. But there rarely, if ever, IS one single “best thing” in this situation. You can give advice, but you can’t make a decision for someone, unless they’re incapable of doing so.
Vihaga, so by your logic, the baby is now marked by who his father was? :rolleyes: The “sins of the father are visited upon the son” sort of thing?
I agree with all those who’ve said that it’s her choice. Beyond that, I hope that the father pays child maintenance.
That really takes this into murky territory - child support, father’s rights, visitation - I think we’re all fairly agreed that courts make decisions like this based on what is right for the child at this point; it isn’t out of the question that they could order child support and visitation (in spite of how incredibly wrong that sounds). The rapist may be a convicted criminal at this point, but convicted criminals don’t get let off the hook for child support.
Uh, yeah. Why isn’t this the only option in the poll?
Didn’t the ER give her a morning after pill?