Hello everyone, just thought I'd give my views on the matter.
Before becoming a Christian, I was an agnostic I suppose. I didn't know whether God existed or not! Anyway, my views used to be similar to Gerani's. I believed that a couple who didn't want a child should not have one as they would be unable to fulfill their parental duties properly.
However, my thoughts changed. How many of us can honestly say we wish we'd never been born? Even people with defects can have a decent life. My mother was careless. She has five children with three different men and had her first child at 16. But I can't imagine what it would be like had any of my siblings been aborted. I am the fourth. My mother went to be sterilised and found she was pregnant. The doctors said she could have a termination, but she didn't want one. My father couldn't take it and left a week after my younger brother was born. To this day, he blames my mother for our existence and believes that because "she was the one who should have been taking the pill", that this exempts him from parental responsibility. In a way, one could argue that my siblings and I are suffering as a result of our parents' indulgences in sexually immoral practices. But despite all this, everything is fine. My life is not totally messed up!
It is a great shame when a man overcome by Satan becomes so hungry for power that he decides to demonstrate his so-called power by taking a poor woman by force. A woman who has pregnancy forced upon her will surely need God's strength and compassion, but she can get through it! I would understand if a woman in this position did not want to bring up the child as she may have difficulty in developing a maternal bond, but hopefully there would be a loving, childless couple somewhere who would want to raise the child!