Part of my rationale is, let me create a scenario. Say I had been married at 28, and my wife had gone to a different school and in a different state, and she wanted to go to the 10-year school reunion, and I didn't know anybody there, and she'd gone by herself. While she was there, she caught up with the boyfriend she'd had when she was 17, and they'd had a bit much to drink, and she'd cheated on me, and we'd had sex not long after she returned, and then told me she was pregnant, but had kept the cheating from me, and then, when the child was 20, they had kidney failure and needed a transplant and I offered to donate, and I was found to not be a match, because I wasn't the child's father, I wouldn't turn my back on them, if I had been there from their birth. Would I forgive the cheating? Well, if it was just a once-off and I didn't know about it until later, maybe, but I would still be hurt. If, however, she was making regular trips away and it was happening often, no.

As much as I agree that the child conceived as a result of a rape is innocent, I believe it is a crime against humanity to deny a woman the choice to have an abortion. After all, rape is a violation, and she might not have been planning to have children at that point. And the conversation regarding rape needs to shift from acknowledging that nice girls and women are no less likely to be raped than not nice ones, and that her clothing had no bearing on it.

If I was married to a woman and she was raped, I would be angry for her that it happened. If I had a daughter and she was raped, and she wanted to have an abortion, I would support her, but I would still be angry with the rapist, and I would NOT under any circumstances, be happy if the law said that she could marry him to get him off, and would NOT be "welcome to the family, Son," towards him.