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By Olivia Gans and Mary Spaulding Balch, J.D.
Not surprisingly, when asked to suggest the question they would least like to be asked, average pro-lifers usually say it is about the "hard cases," including questions posed about rape, incest, and the presence of severe fetal abnormality that seem to many people to be almost unanswerable.
While we do not deny that these difficult cases arouse powerful emotional responses, there are answers. The following are some helpful hints, the kind that will ease your mind and keep you from backing away when these questions are thrown at you.
First of all it is critical to remember that the vast majority of abortions do not happen as a result of any of these reasons. In fact, according to a study in Family Planning Perspectives (published by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, which is the research arm of Planned Parenthood), less than 6% of all abortions done in the United States are done for all of these reasons combined. However, this infrequency has never prevented pro-abortion proponents from using these examples as scare tactics to reinforce a false perception that there is a need for abortion in desperate cases.
The hard cases are always brought up because they carry so much emotional weight with the general public, who don't know the facts about abortion in the United States. Moreover, because many people are quite afraid of how they would respond themselves to any of these circumstances, it is easy for abortion proponents to prey on those anxieties.
So what is the pro-life speaker's job? It is to address those fears sympathetically, rationally, and factually. Taken separately there are solid reasons why abortion should not be resorted to in these cases. Taken collectively this small minority of cases proves the adage that hard cases make bad law.
Certain realities need to be restated in any response. Once again it is vital to remind the audience that the circumstances of the baby's conception change nothing about the baby herself or abortion's inherent brutality. The baby's development is no different. The methods used to end that life remain just as violent.
Yet it is not unusual when the hard cases are discussed for a kind of mental gymnastics to take place in the minds of people who have otherwise accepted the pro-life arguments but seem to believe that everything is somehow different in the hard cases.
Look, first, at the arguments in favor of abortion when the baby will have a severe fetal abnormality. Any answer has to tear aside the veil of prejudice that drives the notion that it is somehow kinder to kill a person with a disability or a disease before she is born than to let her "live in that condition."
The pro-lifer's job is to bring sanity to the situation by firmly rejecting the "quality of life" argument, the very dangerous idea that there are some lives not worthy of living. This response reminds our listeners that every life is unique, every life is valuable. By establishing this baseline, you can show them that aborting a child because of possible abnormality is nothing less than blatant and deadly discrimination against people with disabilities.
Shockingly, the types of disabilities included by pro-abortionists in the list of purportedly "good reasons" for an abortion range from the truly severe to relatively minor; the list of the latter grows lengthier every year. Abortion is becoming a search-and-destroy method for eliminating less-than-"perfect" people. Rather than pursuing medical solutions to some of these difficulties, there is a regular use of techniques, like amniocentesis, to identify problems in the unborn so that an abortion can be performed more expediently. In light of this reality the pro-life response must insist that we don't cure disease by killing the patient.
The next two hard cases are typically asked together, so we will answer them in a similar fashion. When it comes to pregnancies that result from rape and/or incest, real violence has been done to women. Pro-lifers must fully appreciate the fear that swirls around any discussion of rape and incest.
Your answer must begin in compassion; a woman has been violated, often violently. If pro-lifers care deeply about the lives of women facing any difficult pregnancy - - and we do - - obviously we care no less in the case of rape or incest.
Simply stated, rape is an act of violence against an innocent woman. When someone has been through an ordeal of this magnitude she deserves to be treated with the deepest compassion, enormous support, and special care.
But while society is finally recognizing that rape is an act of violence against an innocent victim, it still fails to recognize that abortion is also an act of violence against another innocent victim.
If the woman does become pregnant, a rare but possible occurrence, she may be made to feel twice as tainted when society is not prepared to cope with the circumstances of this child's conception. Counselors and abortion providers encourage abortion as the perfect "solution."
Irrationally, society expects her to kill her unborn child, not for something the child has done, but for the crime of his/her father. Once again the mother is pitted against her child.
Subjecting her to an abortion only compounds the initial violence of the rape. Only in this second tragedy, the woman becomes the aggressor against her own child.
Although research in this area is limited, at least two studies done with women who've become pregnant following a rape have clearly shown that women who aborted their children feel twice victimized and angry about the abortion (Mahkom, "Pregnancy and Sexual Assault," Psychological Aspects of Abortion , University Publishers of America [1979], pp. 53-72).
Women in one study who carried their babies to term, although frightened at first, felt they had done the more positive thing by giving their children life; they felt they had turned something awful into something good (Mahkom and Dolan, "Sexual Assault and Pregnancy," New Perspectives on Human Abortion , University Publishers of America [1981], pp. 182-199). A women who tries to face any sort of crisis pregnancy alone is at risk. Whatever the circumstances of her life, each woman deserves support and proper care throughout her pregnancy and beyond it to prevent more harm being done either emotionally or physically. Help like that is found at the over 3,000 pro-life mother-helping centers across the country. That is the true measure of compassion for mother and child.
All of the responses to these various arguments have to take into account that most of the time they stem from some kind of fear on the part of the questioner. People are unfamiliar with or afraid of how they would cope with a disability so they rush to reject the lives of babies with disabilities. Understandably, there is concern about the violence of rape or incest, but at best that fear leads to a misplaced sense of chivalry, at worst a coldhearted rejection of both victims of the crime.
While hard cases can make bad law, they can also offer the greatest challenge to create the kind of life-affirming society we want to live in.
*This article originally appeared in July 8, 1998 NRL News
Printed with permission from National Right to Life ( www.nrlc.org ).
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Rape and Incest: The Ultimate 'Hard Cases'
Rape and Incest: The Ultimate 'Hard Cases'
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CHAPTER 79 — RAPE AND INCEST: THE ULTIMATE "HARD CASES"
How I am grieved by the indignities I have suffered, and revolted by rank smells How I despise the nomad land and hate the nomad sky! When I became pregnant with a Buranian child, I wanted to kill myself. Yet once I bore it, I found the love of mother and child. His looks are strange and his speech is different, yet my hate turns into love. Deep inside, I feel the tug of my heartstrings. Morning and evening he is with me. How can I not pity that which my womb has borne and my hand nurtured?
Lament of an ancient Chinese noblewoman who was kidnapped and raped by barbarians.[1]
Legal abortion provides the only humane disposition of a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.
The National Abortion Rights Action League.[2]
Rape and Incest The Initial 'Wedge.'
There is always an easy solution to every human problem neat, plausible, and wrong.
H.L. Mencken.
In every one of the 56 countries that now have abortion on demand, the initial step taken by the pro-abortion forces was intense lobbying for abortion in the so-called 'hard cases' fetal deformity (eugenics), and/or rape and incest.
Any attorney will acknowledge that "hard cases make bad law," but that hasn't stopped anti-life people all over the world from using the classic 'hard cases' to introduce first artificial contraception, then abortion, then infanticide, and finally euthanasia.
Once the pro-abortionists secure abortion for the 'hard cases' of rape and incest, they use the situation to point out the "inconsistency" in existing laws in order to justify abortion on demand.
Opponents of abortion rights walk a fine line within their own movement when they condone any abortion. Based on their own definition, they are guilty of being accessories to "murder" in certain circumstances by accepting rape and incest exceptions.
'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights.[3]
As correctly pointed out by one of the most rabidly pro-abortion groups in the world, the 'Religious' Coalition for Abortion Rights, pro-lifers must never apologize for fighting rape- and incest-justified abortions. If we even begin to think that preborn lives are disposable for any reason other than to save another human life, we set the life of the preborn below that of other human beings and this is what started our nation and our world on the road to abortion on demand in the first place!
As former abortionist Dr. Bernard Nathanson has said so eloquently, "If a part of a human community were not at stake, no woman should be required to undergo the degradation of bearing a child in these [rape and incest] circumstances, but even degradation, shame, and emotional disruption are not the moral equivalent of life. Only life is."[4]
How Many Pregnancies Are Caused By Rape?
A pregnancy conceived by forcible rape would probably head the list as the most often unwanted, but it is such an unlikely event that it is not really relevant to an understanding of the reasons why women define certain pregnancies as unwanted.
Pro-abortion writer N. Lee.[5]
From an ethical and logical standpoint, the number of pregnancies caused by rape and incest in this country is an issue that simply is not relevant to the moral case against these exceptions. Either all unborn babies are worth saving, or none of them are.
However, it is very useful to be able to show just how rare rape- and incest-caused pregnancies really are, because the pro-abortionists have succeeded in convincing the public that the number is extremely large. A 1990 national Wirthlin poll found that the average guess at the number of abortions performed for rape and incest was 21% of the total number of abortions in the United States.[6]
Since the definition of rape and the reporting procedures for such crimes vary widely from one jurisdiction to another, it is difficult to precisely pin down the number of pregnancies that result from rape each year.
However, it is possible to make an accurate estimate by taking into consideration Federal Bureau Investigation reporting percentages and known fertility factors that affect both the rapist and his victim.
Figure 79-1 shows calculations of the estimated rate of rape-caused pregnancies in this country using statistics from the Census Bureau and various leading researchers. This rate of rape-caused pregnancies is then used to calculate the total number of resulting pregnancies in this country over the period 1973 to 1992 as shown in Figure 79-2.
These calculations show that, on the average, about 550 women per year become pregnant as a result of rape. Using this figure, this means that, since Roe v. Wade in 1973, an average of 0.04% (one twenty-fifth of one percent) of all abortions have been performed for rape or one out of every 2,500 !
FIGURE 79-1 CALCULATION OF PREGNANCY PROBABILITY DUE TO RAPE
[A medium text size on your computer's 'view' setting is recommended, otherwise, the tables may be discombobulated.]
Possible Rape-Induced Sociological, Physical, or Demographic Factor Pregnancies
Assume an initial sample rape victim population of 100,000. 100,000 Factors Affecting the Woman's Fertility. About one-third of all rape victims are postmenopausal or have not yet reached menarche (first menstruation), and are therefore generally sterile. Of those victims that are of childbearing age, 47 percent have been rendered permanently sterile due to elective surgery or environmental effects. Finally, about 40 percent of all non-sterile women of childbearing age are temporarily sterile due to contraception use. This means that (100% - 33%) X (100% - 47%) X (100% - 40%) = 18.9% of rape victims were fertile at the time of the attack.[A] 100,000 X 21.3% = 21,300 A woman is fertile only three days out of a typical 28-day cycle. Furthermore, even if all conditions are ideal and both man and woman are fertile, and intercourse takes place on every fertile day , pregnancy will take an average of five months (or a total of 15 fertile days out of five 28-day cycles) to achieve.[B,C] 21,300 X (15/140) = 2,280 Factors Affecting the Rapist's Fertility. Men in the United States have an infertility rate due to natural or surgical causes of about 25 percent. However, as a class, rapists have a much higher degree (57%) of erective or ejaculatory dysfunction serious enough to render them sterile.[D,E] 2,280 X (100% - 57%) = 980 Rape is legally defined as penetration only; ejaculation need not be accomplished. Of those nonsterile rapists achieving penetration, only about half deposited sperm.[D,E] 980 X 50% = 490
CONCLUSION: These calculations show that, on the average, 490 per 100,000 women who are raped become pregnant in the United States. This is equivalent to 0.490 percent, or about one-half of one percent.
References. [A] R.B. Everett and G.K. Jemerson. "The Rape Victim." Obstetrics and Gynecology . 50, 1977, page 88. Also data based upon telephone communications with Dr. Charles Pratt, Survey of Family Growth Division, National Center for Health Statistics, April 4, 1978, and Planned Parenthood-World Population on April 4, 1978. Summarized in testimony by Congressman Thomas J. Bliley, Jr., (R-Va.) on July 25, 1983, and reprinted in the next day's Congressional Record . Also see United States Bureau of the Census. Reference Data Book and Guide to Sources, Statistical Abstract of the United States . 1990, United States Government Printing Office. Table 99, "Contraceptive Use By Women, 15-44 Years Old, By Age, Race, Marital Status, and Method of Contraception: 1982." [B] R. Pearl. The Natural History of Population . New York: Oxford University Press, 1939. Pages 72 to 79. [C] V. Seltzer. "Medical Management of the Rape Victim." Journal of the American Medical Women's Association . 32, 1977, page 141. [D] C. Groth, A. Nicholas, and Ann Wolbert Burgess. "Sexual Dysfunction During Rape." New England Journal of Medicine , October 6, 1977, pages 764 to 766. [E] M. Dahlke, et al . "Identification of Semen in 500 Patients Seen Because of Rape." American Journal of Clinical Pathology . 68, 1977, page 740.
FIGURE 79-2 PREGNANCIES CAUSED BY RAPE IN THE UNITED STATES, 1973 TO 1990
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) Rape Estimated Pregnancies Legal Reported Reporting Total Caused Abortions Year Rapes Ratio Rapes By Rape Performed
1973 37,662 55.5% 68,000 333 744,600 1974 40,008 52.8% 76,000 372 898,600 1975 41,501 56.2% 74,000 363 1,034,200 1976 43,222 54.1% 80,000 392 1,179,300 1977 47,829 53.3% 90,000 441 1,316,700 1978 50,590 48.8% 104,000 510 1,409,400 1979 57,958 50.5% 115,000 564 1,497,700 1980 63,599 51.4% 124,000 608 1,553,900 1981 63,038 55.7% 113,000 554 1,577,300 1982 59,967 52.8% 114,000 559 1,573,900 1983 61,019 47.0% 130,000 637 1,575,000 1984 66,367 56.0% 119,000 583 1,577,200 1985 71,060 61.0% 116,000 568 1,588,100 1986 73,453 48.1% 153,000 750 1,475,000 1987 73,456 53.2% 138,000 676 1,510,000 1988 75,441 55.8% 135,000 662 1,550,000 1989 80,045 51.1% 157,000 769 1,610,000 1990 77,920 60.1% 130,000 637 1,575,000
AVERAGES, 1973 to 1990 (18 years) 554 1,402,550
CONCLUSIONS: An average of 554 rapes result in pregnancy each year. An average of 1,402,550 abortions are performed each year. If every rape-caused pregnancy ended in abortion , 1 out of every 2,532 abortions would be performed for rape. This is 0.0395 percent of all abortions (just under four one hundredths of one percent).
IMPORTANT: Note that this table takes into consideration no
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