Michelle Bachmann

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Originally Posted by Dahoss

What about the cases where the 13 year old is raped by a family member? They don't report it because of fear, or embarrassment.

Obviously another hypothetical, but I'll never understand why men care so much about what women do with their bodies. Sure, when women use abortion as birth control it's a problem, but that's a very small % of the time. This is just more of the right wanting to control things.

We have enough kids running around with parents, who just aren't capable of, or just don't want to be parents.

In our hypothetical new rules, the crime would have to be reported. The family member would get locked up, same thing - charged with 2nd degree murder or maybe even 1st degree - with the basis being that the close and continuous contact as a family member was tantamount to premeditation.

And I personally don't view it as "the right wanting to control things." I'd be happy to see abortion go away as the issue would also go away. Yes, I am a political conservative but I'd rather discuss other topics along that line of thinking.

We would know what exactly the rules are - it would still be there for such extreme cases as these crimes we are talking about. But the days of the would-be mother, alone, making the decision to end a life that she did not create alone, would end.

When a life is taken by an arm of the government, whether through capital punishment or in an abortion clinic, there needs to be due process. Investigation, records and the like. It cannot be "hush hush" and then someone is dead.