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If the woman doesn't know who the father is, who's choice was that?

In some cases, the man who raped her.



I think he was referring to terminating the pregnancy or putting the kid up for adoption.


Terminating the pregnancy is another choice that's not practically available to many poor women in the united states.


It is also incredibly shitty to suggest that if a woman is raped she can just get an abortion, problem solved. It is surgery, this another insult to the body, and some women feel strongly that abortion is murder. So the choice becomes "Do I try to spend the rest of my life loving this demon spawn that will be a living, breathing reminder of my rape every day, or do I swallow my morals and commit what I view as baby murder?" Acting like it is no big if a woman is raped and left with such a conundrum sounds just mind-bogglingly callous.




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