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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (486645)	11/4/2003 3:35:16 PM
From: Jerrel Peters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Should the son of a mass murderer be killed for the sins of his father? As humans we all have a soul and all to some degree have compassion for others. But is it right to take the life of somebody that has not done anything to deserve a sentence of death by dismemberment?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (486645)	11/4/2003 4:33:47 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Firstly, circumstances resulting of rape/incest (these are essentially the same in most cases) are irrelevant to abortion as currently sanctioned by federal law. Merely because in certain cases I may have to trespass (to, say, save a human life), by no means grants me the right to trespass on demand. Likewise, assuming we exempt abortion cases resulting of rape/incest (or that we severely mitigate the sentence for such a crime) by no means eliminates the biological fact that abortion is murder as it now exists in law. Secondly, merely because a child results of tragedy does not alter the biological fact that the child is a human – like us. When a man rapes a woman and she gets pregnant of the rape, the man (and not an anti-abortion society) creates two victims. Society must acknowledge this fact and is under no moral compulsion to rectify it by supporting the murder of one of us. It is the rapist who is cold-hearted and callous. This is all the more reason why punishment for rape ought to be amongst the severest in our law. But regardless of the circumstances in which it found life, a child’s humanity remains fully intact. Because it remains intact, it has a natural, self-evident right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Merely because a child’s father is a criminal does not mean the child loses this right. It is a hard matter. But its hardness is not lessened by public sanction of murder. Life and tragedy go hand-in-hand. And no one is obligated to make anything easy for anyone else via the murder of a child who had no control of the circumstances of his birth. When rape occurs, a tragedy occurs. When pregnancy results of rape, the tragedy is increased. When abortion results of these tragedies, the force of the overall tragedy is increased further still. It is not decreased because a human being has been murdered as a result of the tragedy. Society’s posture is logically this: the mother should never abort a human child even in the tragic case of rape because doing such a thing is to claim the child is not human - and that is objectively false. Innocent human character is our highest self and objectively it is all we have. Society ought not support and is under no moral obligation to support the willful destruction of this unique character. Nevertheless, since the root of any rape tragedy lies squarely with the rapist, and not with a mother who is created of it, society may severely mitigate the sentence of a mother who commits murder in this instance. Her case is worlds apart from the typical case wherein abortion occurs. It is a different circumstance than the mother who willingly engages in the act that produces children and who finds herself with child. In this typical case, the fault lies squarely with the mother and with the abortionist who murders the child she created of her own volition. Society should discourage abortion by law, focusing more upon abortionists who actually commit these murders for profit, than the mothers who are under duress. Innocent humanity is our guide. It is the thing for which we all strive. It is the basis of everything that is us - and it must be protected.