conuly

I would have serious difficulty being willing to bear a child conceived through rape. I just don't like the idea of slightly encouraging the spread of any genetic component that tends toward rape. I do think rape is more influenced by environment and cultural factors than genetic factors, and I know evolution is slow and one baby here or there has little effect, but it strikes me as helping to encourage rape.

I don't blame anyone who decides differently. I would not tell someone who was raped and chose to keep the baby they did something wrong, because I really feel it ~must~ be an individual decision and there are too many factors to weigh, and whichever will make the victim feel best is fine, so long as if a baby is born there is the intent for the baby to be cared for decently (having the baby and taking the anger or pain out on the baby is not okay, of course, the baby, if there is one, is not responsible nor is a potentially slightly increased risk of raping someone at all the same as being a rapist). But I personally do not think I could accept that. It'd feel like rewarding the rapist and showing that rape works.