It is a cruel thing to kill what will, in the normal course of things, be a child because of its father's crime.
It is also a cruel thing to shackle the victim of a rape to the scum who violated her, quite possibly for the rest of her life, by forcing her to bear his child.
I do not feel competent to choose between competing cruelties to be inflicted upon anyone else. The proper response to any woman forced into such a horrific corner is simple compassion, not the attempted addition of a burden of guilt to her sufferings.
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