A huge question that lays heavily on every person is the following: Is there an exception

to having an abortion if the woman gets raped? Obviously, I do not agree with abortion at all, but
when I get asked this question, honestly, I find myself stumbling for an answer adequate enough
to not only satisfy the person asking me, but myself. This encouraged me to do some heavy
research in order to gain a perspective on this very issue. I found an article titled, Pro-Life
Answer to the Rape Question, that greatly helped me come up with an answer that satisfiedmy
concerns with an abortion resulting from a rape. Majority of abortions are the outcome of
consensual sex although there are some that are because of the woman being raped. The reason I
am against aborting a baby is because I believe that an innocent baby has the right to live and
grow. Because that is my initial and main reason as to why I am against abortion, then the means
of conception should not alter my view. The article stated the following question, Do the
circumstances of a childs conception change the fact that he or she is a living preborn person?
(Pro Life Answer to the Rape Question, Par. 3). I know and realize that it would be extremely
and incredibly difficult to bear a child that shares half of the genes as the man who raped a
woman, but having an abortion does not unrape her, nor will the feelings of regret and grief go
away, if anything, they will increase to do killing the baby inside of her (Pro Life Answer to the
Rape Question, Par. 10). The circumstances of how the baby was conceived do not change the
fact that the baby is an innocent human life and no one should take that away from he or she. The
child should not have to suffer due to he or shes parents crime. For a moment, picture your best
friend. Picture you two doing one of your favorite things together, laughing, and having a good
time together (Pro Life Answer to the Rape Question, Par. 6). If your best friends birth was the
result of his mother being raped, would you still want to be friends with him? Of course you
would, that would not change your feelings for him. Your friendship is not contingent on how he

was conceived, so it should not matter in the case of rape either. What if a mother decided to
keep the baby that the rapist impregnated her with, but gave the child up for adoption?
Something good came out of the horrible situation, she gave birth to a new, innocent life. The
rapist should be punished, not the innocent baby (Pro Life Answer to the Rape Question, Par. 9).