Priests for Life? Try again

My following post will be in response to some sample letters for letters to the editor that the organization Priests for Life has on their website regarding abortions for rape victims. Here is the link

http://www.priestsforlife.org/lte/lte18.html

"First of all, it isn't as if we're talking about inseminating rape and incest victims. It is their attackers who forced them to bear children. We're just saying we shouldn't pay to kill the children in question."

First of all, we pro choicers arn't accusing you in the first place of personally inseminating these women. Strawman number one. What you ARE ultimately talking about is enacting a policy that would further the control of their rape upon them. But we will get to that in a minute. Second, you state it is their attackers that are forcing them to bear children and not you. Yeah, uh that is kinda our point. Their attackers SHOULDNT GET TO force them to bear children. The fact that they started it isn't the matter. They already forced them to have carnal knowledge. That was ENOUGH of an abuse. And by enacting legislation to subject these women to another event against their will, you ARE participating in the furtherance of the  perps original violation.

"Second, and more important, is the sexism of the senator's attitude. Are women just the soil in which a man may plant his seed? Isn't it her baby too? Just because a woman has been raped doesn't mean she isn't a mother. For this senator to refer to the baby as "the rapist's child" dismisses the woman as an object. But it was seeing the woman as just an object that allowed the attack in the first place. Perhaps that is where the good senator found common ground with the rapist."

Funny how you make the remark accusing our side of seeing women as just the soil to be planted upon considering the Catholic Church's stance on contraception and sex being primarily for procreation. If ANYONE views women as soil to be fertilized it is your side. Is it her baby too? Genetics can only create a bond so much in some women. It is obvious that not all women see the children they bear as special or even something they bond with. And your use of "just because" is really showing. JUST BECAUSE she was raped? JUST BECAUSE?!? Way to triviliaze the subject of rape thru wording. And if a woman is forced to have a baby created thru violence against her will, it IS the rapist's child. The child was born from his will. He forced her to get pregant and than forced her to have it. That birth was totally his doing and the doing of archaic laws that allow him to do it. Yes, it WAS seeing that woman as an object that lead to her being victimized in the first place. And it is seeing her as an object that allows YOUR side to turn her into an object AGAIN by forcing her to have a baby against her will. It is YOUR side good sir that is displaying the power dynamic of the rapist, not ours.

I plan on responding to more letters of this site in the future. Stay tuned.