>> Unreservedly. When you begin by recognizing that God is the author of life, then the rest becomes academic. That child did nothing to warrant being murdered. The actions of the rapist are the criminal ones. The mother is the victim. The child is a precious gift from God, a new life given unto the mother and her family.
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>>Rick, this is inhumane. I'd even go so far to say this is a cruel and vicious position. You're denying the woman the choice of determining who will be the father of her baby.
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>The philosophical and ethical question is not whether she should be able to choose the father.. of course Rick would want her to.

Sure about that???

>He's talking about how she will deal with an event that she had no control over.
>Life is full of those choices and what we call "character" is largely defined by the way a person handles them.

That's rich, Bill, really rich. Every year, roughly 25,000 or so women - raped, brutalized, traumatized, will probably never be the same again....and carrying a rapist's baby. A rapist, possibly carrying a disease, a chemical imbalance with a propensity for violence....and your answer to a woman making possibly the most intimate, crucial, and tragic decision of her life is the "character-building" line.

People will call you many things for this "character" comment (and you'll likely deserve every one of them). For me, I'll simply say that if you truly believe that, you are not a defender of individual rights.