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“To bring rape into the question of abortion is camouflage, a smoke screen, a cover-op. It’s using this highly emotionally charged issue (rape) to avoid…discussion of the real issues. To have a sound policy towards the rape victim, we should not have abortion as its cornerstone. We should have a caring, sensitive assistance towards those young women who need our help in this particular traumatic situation. Aborting an innocent child will never correct the pathology nor mend the hurts. The problem exists with or without pregnancy – with or without abortion. We’ve got to get abortion out of the arena of discussion and bring the real discussion of both rape and incest so we can get to the core of the problems, and stop the band-aid solutions of the band-aid society.”

Many women do not see a problem with abortion because according to them, a fetus is just cells. A fetus is more than just cells, it is a human being. Eighteen days after conception, doctors have detected the unborn child’s beating heart. Forty-five days after conception, brain waves have been detected. By three months, all body systems are present and functioning. All of these things occur in the first trimester and ninety-five percent of abortions are performed during the first trimester (Abortion: What about Rape & Incest?). Even though the child is not able to survive on its own, it still has all of its body systems. Abortion is legal in the United States up to twenty-four weeks after conception. At twenty-four weeks the fetus is fully formed and a

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