text: I think your question makes quite clear that you don't give a damn what I say, but I'm going to say it anyway.\n\nIf a woman is raped and becomes pregnant, she cannot be held responsible for her pregnancy.  Forcing her to carry the child to term is very much akin to slavery in that her body is forced to perform work for the benefit of another (the fetus) against her will.  It's reducing her to nothing more than a baby factory.\n\nI'm assuming you're male.  No woman could adopt the attitude that it is always the woman's fault if she becomes pregnant.  To say that she is necessarily responsible is simply not fair.\n\nIsn't it far worse to be brought into the world only to be wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown in a dumpster than not to be born at all?  That's what happens to many unwanted babies.\n\nAbortion isn't punishing the fetus.  A fetus at the stages in which it can be aborted can't survive outside the womb.  It lacks functional organs, and does not think or feel.  Why should it's life be valued above the that of the mother?  And for all those who will try to quote Christian morality, the bible says that the soul enters the body when the first breath is taken.  That happens when the child is born, not when it is concieved.\n\nIf men could get pregnant, I don't think there would be anyone out there suggesting abortion is murder.\n\nIn an ectopic pregnancy, it is an accepted medical fact that the fetus will die.  Terminating the pregancy saves the mother.  If the pregancy is allowed to continue, the mother will die too.  There's no possibility of saving the child.  I've heard plenty argue that abortion is wrong, but you're the first I've seen suggest that terminating an ectopic pregnacy is wrong.  That's simply idiotic.