THIS is the MAIN issue right there, Derek. Did she want this or not. My heart goes to her if she truly was raped.
The main point is, who should make the decision.
Regardless of a persons mental capability, They do have the same human rights as we do, have sex. It is a human thing to desire sex. If you 100 percent automatically assume she was raped then you are saying that she does not have a right to have sex due to her functioning level.
The problem is, no man has stepped forward to say it was consensual, and she had wandered away from the group home so no one knows where she was or with whom during that time.
My personal BEEF with the whole situation is Catholicism. Please get that woman and all women on birth control NOT because of birth control itself because of their periods. Seriously many women would be happier themselves if their periods gave them less pain, and less cramping. Some women go through so many heavy bleeding its not fun at all every month.
I'm not a Catholic but I totally disagree with your statement that all women should be on birth control. It might help some women for pain relief and period regulation but it certainly isn't a solution for all women. Menstruation is a normal body function, and not all women have problems resulting from it. Are you sure you don't work for a pharmaceutical sales company? I mean really, suggesting medication for all women whether they need it or not. :roll:
You also realize that the pill isn't 100 percent effective as birth control, and that some women have side effects from it?
Also, what does that have to do with this woman's situation?
This is my major issue here in America, there are too many women on that level that their families made the decision for themselves because of religion not because of womens health.
You know nothing about this family's prior decisions or all the woman's health situations. You're making an awful lot of assumptions.
It is really a shame. Those parents do not see beyond the reasoning of birth control labeling. They will be on the pill because of their health not because of birth control its not the primary purpose for half of women on it anyhow! Many have gone through several kinds of pills before finding the right one not because of birth control itself because of the periods and emotions involved.
You don't know what this family's situation is, and you don't know if the pill would have been a solution for the woman.
On the one hand, you claim that the woman has the human right to sexual activity but on the other hand, you don't want to allow her the right to bear a child.
Regardless of rape or consent, it is a bad situation for that woman if she is known to have seizures thats my concern. For medical experts they say its fine?
Are you saying that no woman who has seizures should bear children? We don't know the cause of her seizures, what kind they are, how frequent they are, how they would effect a pregnancy or how pregnancy would effect the seizures.
I have no desire to hear the parents side at all.
Maybe you don't but the courts do. The parents have legal guardianship of their daughter. They are also her parents who care about her.
The unborn one already has 6 adoptive families willing to step up to the plate. The parents were the ones that brought religion into the equation. Medical experts and the woman ought be the ones that should make the decision together regardless of her thinking level, she is still an adult, a human being with wants and desires and there are many people out there that can talk to a 6 year old child, that more likely can also talk to the woman on a 6 year old level what she truly wants.
"The couple says they have exclusive authority over their daughter's health care decisions as her legal guardians, and both they and
the woman want to carry the baby to term in line with their Catholic religious beliefs."