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Related: About this forumCNN anti-choice guest Lila Rose: ‘An abortion doesn’t un-rape a woman’
By Arturo Garcia
Wednesday, January 22, 2014 20:53 EST
An anti-abortion activist seemed to suggest in a CNN Crossfire discussion on Wednesday that women who become pregnant because of a rape should be forced to carry those pregnancies to term.
When a woman is raped, thats a horrible injustice against her, Live Action president Lila Rose told co-host Sally Kohn. The rapist should be held to the fullest extent of the law, liable for that, culpable for that. The woman needs healing and the support of her community. But an abortion doesnt unrape a woman. An abortion just adds more violence on top of that first she endured.
Kohn attempted several times to get Rose to seemingly clarify her position, but Rose talked over her.
You mentioned, Sally, late-term abortion I want to address that real quick, Rose told Kohn. Late-term abortion is horrific. But all abortion is horrific. Even in the first trimester. Keep in mind: hearts beating at three-and-a-half weeks.
Contrary to Roses argument, the Mayo Clinic asserted that a fetus heart forms around the fifth week of a pregnancy.
Were not gonna get into that right now, Kohn said. You are saying, in effect, that the rapist should have more rights than the woman.
Absolutely not, Rose insisted. The rapist isnt allowed to kill anybody.
Isnt it great that we live in a country where Lila Rose could decide where she would choose to carry her rapists pregnancy to term, NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue said, interjecting. But her version of morality doesnt actually dictate what I can choose to do in that moment. And thats what religious liberty is about its about you getting to choose what would be right for you in that circumstance I dont get to tell you what to do, and you dont get to tell me what to do.
Watch the discussion, as aired Wednesday on CNN, below.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/22/cnn-anti-choice-guest-lila-rose-an-abortion-doesnt-un-rape-a-woman/
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CNN anti-choice guest Lila Rose: ‘An abortion doesn’t un-rape a woman’ (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2014
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Gothmog
(145,291 posts)1. Lila Rose is a friend of James O'Keefe
This lady is a nasty person
GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)2. Einstein move over.