Majority View On Abortion

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The article I chose discusses the majority view on rape and abortion. The author, David Reardon, examines the thoughts on how people can expect a person to give birth to a rapist’s child. While every pro-lifer has heard the same challenges, such as pro-lifers are insensitive “fetus lovers” or ethically inconsistent by allowing abortion for some circumstances but not others. However, both accept the presumption that women who have been raped and become pregnant would want to abort the child allowing the women in some way help them recover from the rape. Thus, the pro-lifer is in a difficult place with arguing with the victim’s decision.
Since the majority of the world has the same belief that sexual assault pregnancies should have right to

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