Thursday, October 30, 2014

Research Paper: Favorite Paragraph


According to the US Legal Definition, rape is defined as a criminal offense in most states as forcible sexual relations with a person against that person's will. The definition varies from state to state, but the general concept is all the same. The lack of consent must be present but in the case of a minor, the definition of consent changes. If a man rapes and woman and she becomes pregnant, the crime he committed was rape. The woman, who is the victim, committed no crime. Now there is a product of that rape and it happens to be human being. Why is that child being sentenced to the death penalty (abortion)? Why is someone else’s life an exception because a man committed a crime? The woman who was raped didn’t ask to be raped, just like that child didn’t ask to be a product of a rape. Our American society does not permit directly punishing the victim of a rape and a child that may be conceived during a rape is also a victim, punish the rapist, not the victims.

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