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...crime, claiming they were at the movies at the time. Following the murder, Eric and Lyle spent six months spending the fortune their Cuban immigrant father worked years to build. When they were charged with their parents' murder, the Menendez brothers told a bizarre tale of murder, incest, sexual abuse and torture. Claiming they feared for their lives, Eric and Lyle said that they believed they had no choice but to kill their tormentors...
Community and family are both competing concerns to absolute freedom. Over 90 percent of abortions are performed simply because the mother does not want the child, while only I percent result from rape or incest, according to the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Society must consider, then, whether abortion contributes to the breakdown of the family, lack of personal responsibility and diminished overall respect for life. If so, then freedom of choice need not trump cries for regulation...
...between a dead baby or a live baby." What about a dead mother or a live mother? For instance, pregnancy can be dangerous for diabetic women, since a side effect can be a diabetic coma. But the alliance disallows all instances of abortion, even in cases of rape or incest...
More hard-to-believe testimony comes from David C. Reardon in his article entitled "The Abortion Experience for Victims of Rape and Incest." It uses data from 1979 to assert that "the vast majority of incest victims want to carry their pregnancy to term." If they do, then why is the case of incest so often used as the paragon example of an unwanted pregnancy...
...points out that in the 1990 Cruzan case, the Supreme Court kept a comatose Nancy Cruzan on life support, though her parents protested that she would have opposed it. Annas recommends similar skepticism here: "Even people who are fervently pro-life," he says, "[sometimes] make exceptions for rape and incest." Since the pregnancy was "not her project," says Annas, making the woman give birth--which carries medical risks--constitutes an "abuse." Other experts worry about how such bizarre origins might affect a child...