Do you think that it is wrong to kill a 4 month old baby?

1) "Doesn't she have the right to use her body however she wishes?" Yes, but not someone else's body. The child, though unwell and obviously unloved by his or her mother, still has the same right to be alive as the mother does. The way in which conception occurred is totally irrelevant as far as the dignity of the child is concerned. Aborting a child conceived through rape is a form of discrimination: "I can't love you. You remind me of my rapist. You aren't who you 'ought' to have been, so I can't have you."

2) "The baby is dependent on the mother for survival." As were you, when you were a child. As is EVERY baby until well into childhood. "She shouldn't be forced to use up unnecessary energy to help this child." To loving mothers, this is a joy, not a burden. Whether or not a mother feels like caring for her child is irrelevant--the fact is, if she has a child, she has duties toward that child even if she didn't want to conceive him. It's called love. It's the same thing we're supposed to do for any less-fortunate person: help, love, serve. Who says that it is "unnecessary"? If the child is alive, then his need for love and food and shelter are real and have to be met, period.

3) "The child isn't even fully developed. Right now, since the child isn't a finished work he is only a potential life. Potential live isn't equal to life." There is no such thing as a "potential life." Either there's life or there isn't--there's nothing in between. People who say this need only open a biology book and learn what cells are, how they work and what the definition of life is. The cells of the newly-conceived child are absolutely alive and the entire blueprint for that new person's every detail is already present at conception. Has it all unfolded yet? No, but it is all there already. We know that these cells are alive because they move and grow; they multiply and divide, which is the basic definition of life. Every adult walking around is nothing but cells and a soul that give those cells life. Cells that are not alive (cells of rocks, for instance) do not move or develop. Is a five-year-old child fully developed? No. A teenager? No. But is s/he less alive because of that? How ridiculous that would sound.

I might add that until a woman actually carries a pregnancy to term, her breast cells have never fully developed--not even if she is 30, 40 or 70 years old. So, she is not totally developed, either. Does that mean that woman is not fully alive?

Life doesn't depend on "completion" or "perfection." Life is very basic: cells that are capable of multiplying and developing, which the cells of the new person do immediately upon conception.

4) A child conceived through an act of love or through rape is still a child deserving of love, not punishment for merely being alive. The large amounts of stress on the mother are real and very sad, but do not diminish her responsibility toward the child because the child is a separate person who has a right to his basic needs being met. In fact, both mother and child in this case have special need of society to care for them BOTH. It is also widely known that abortion creates new problems for the mother: http://www.silentnomoreawareness.org/testimonies/i...

Bad things happen to all of us, but what matters is what we do with them. Violence is never a solution.

I feel truly awful for women who are raped, but even more awful for the children violently murdered because they are the wrong man's child. I don't return to questions I've answered, so I won't see any further discussion on it, but my answer would remain the same no matter what. Four seconds after conception or four months after birth, there is no difference--it's a life worthy of respect and love.

I would hope 2. Yeah, it's her choice what she does. But please keep in mind that the child isn't capable of making choices of his own, which is why he's dependent on his parent/mom.

This is a sick situation. I don't know how to answer it really. If it were me, let's say, and I really, really didn't want to have the child, then I would HOPE I would at least take care of the child so he/she could be adopted.

She should wait. There is no reason to kill her child, I understand that she was raped. But, that is not the child's fault. She needs to be an adult and care for that child until someone else can care for him.

She should wait the 9 months to give up the child...or go to jail in 9 months, which ever she prefers

Well it is a sin to kill someone so I would say that is wrong.

this is weird and wrong