Rape, Pregnancy, & Abortion

 

In the various homes I've gone into over the years I've spent in home health, I've often been asked for advice on terminating a pregnancy. Oddly enough, I've never been asked about preventing pregnancy to start with.

Alabama obviously needs more funding for sex education, but what about when sex is forced? What about when the sex is an act of violence called rape? What can a woman in Alabama do if she's raped and this heinous act results in a pregnancy? Not very much thanks to our misguided state legislature.

We don't support induced abortion as a form of birth control. We do support it when the pregnancy is the result of a violent crime against a woman's body. Currently we frequently see two very specious arguments against induced abortion - one seemingly Biblical and one reportedly scientific. We'll be looking at the fallacy in these two arguments in our next blogs.

Nurse Nan