Rape victims are an entirely different case. Rape is a very horrible thing and no female should ever experience that kind of tragedy, but if a girl ends up getting raped, and she gets pregnant, why abort the baby? In doing so, it only makes the mother selfish because she would only be thinking of herself. Think about it this way: rape victims don't truly recover. Ask any woman who has had it happen to them; they tend to forget about it as the years go by, and they learn to live with the past, but in the back of their minds they are still grieving over what happened to them. Even if the mother aborts the child, she is still at risk of being traumatized for life. Having the child there would play no significant role in the mothers depression because she is still going to cry, and scream, and rant every chance they get. It's not the baby's fault so it should not suffer.

[Many reasons. Maybe she doesn't want to constantly be reminded of the rape every time she looks at the child. Maybe she doesn't want a child to someone who has violated her. Maybe she doesn't want to go through nine months of pain, only to give birth to a child that wasn't made through love.

If a woman is raped, then I think they have every right to be 'selfish' just for once and get rid of the baby, if they choose to. What's wrong with being selfish every once in a while?

You say that she will still go through all the pain, suffering and depression... But she will eventually get on with life. Having a baby as a constant reminder of it isn't exactly going to help with the moving on.]

You bring up some good points, but we don't live in disney. We're not all made through love. I wasn't expected, many of my friends have told me they weren't expected either. The fact of the matter is, no child should suffer because of the crimes committed by any of these sick freaks. It's like killing another human being because someone related to them broke the law. Everyone deserves to be selfish every once in a while, but not when they are deciding whether a baby should live or not. At least out it up for adoption.

[So a mother should have a child ... because life isn't like Disney? Well those rape-victim mothers can sure as hell try to make their lives a little bit happier, at least!

A child is hardly suffering if it's being aborted a few weeks into the pregnancy. Maybe if you kill the child when it's five years old for having a sick father THEN it would be cruel.
A mother IS suffering by keeping a baby she does not want.

And put it up for adoption? So she still goes through nine months of pain, only to give birth to a child that wasn't made through love, then she gives it away?
Why should a rape victim have to go through so much more worry (pregnancy, adoption, etc) when there's a much easier option?]

Again, not everyone is made through love. I don't care if the baby is 5 years old or 5 minutes old, it's still a living, breathing, developing human being. It feels pain. Inside the mother it feeds off of everything she puts in her body in order to live. Killing the baby is not going to help the mother in her depression, if anything, it would just add to it when she realizes she killed her first child.

Giving birth is a natural occurrence. Actually, a normal child birth is not considered an emergency UNLESS there presents complications. Moreover, life-threatening complications for the mother could be detected at an early stage and if they are then by all means abort the baby. We don't want the mother to die. But in the natural process of giving birth. the mother goes through pain, but it's does not affect her life-span. Your whole argument is based on solely the fact that the mother was forced into the birth, which itself is wrong and I do see your point but we're getting into something much greater when we talk about whether the baby should be aborted because you are snatching them of life. My point is simple, I've said it once and I'll say it again, the mother WILL STILL go through pain and suffering even if the child is killed. If she doesn't want to see her kid, then put it up for adoption. Don't take its life because of a crime it did not commit.