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Yeah, though I've seen the exact opposite situation as well, where the child was constantly seriously abused, physically and mentally for the first few years, because of that she was part "evil". Then they discovered that her mother was abusing her and took her away from the mother. The child kept getting sent from home to home because of being more like a savage collection of wrath and chaos, than a human. Then she killed herself before she even had turned 15, if I recall correctly. Perhaps even before she turned twelve. Even though people had tried hard to get through her madness and reach through to her.

All children that come from rape won't automatically turn into well-adjusted people, the same way all children won't turn into creatures that are less like functioning humans than what even some animals are (and hopefully the former is more likely than the latter). Although one of the best options would be to give the child up for adoption after it's born, some women get so traumatized by the rape that the nine months of being punished for something they didn't deserve will make them destroy the child once it's born, having gotten too obsessed with it after the nine months of being stuck with it 24/7. The women won't retain much humanity after that, either. I can't but feel that in such cases it's better for the child to die without having lived, than to go through an unimaginable hell nobody could survive and then be killed, by their own hand or someone elses.
Regarding the mothers.. Being caught in such a prison as rape-induced pregnancy can make even normal people snap. Imagine having to be reminded of the most horribly traumatic event in your entire life 24/7 for the greater part of the year following that event... So, although far from all are like this, the ones that really cannot stand it should definitely never be forced to have the child. If any woman ever should be reduced to a "birth-giving machine" (to quote a certain non-US politician), as in what they want to do with their own bodies not being relevant. Whether a woman wants to carry a child that's the result of a rape should definitely be up to her alone, in spite of that the child might actually turn out alright. The women who do decide to carry should be given therapy and a lot of support, to ensure that the child will get a good life if not adopted away, and to keep the woman from going bonkers regardless of if she keeps the child after birth or not. Not that I can imagine the average taxpayer being interested in paying for that in the event of that the funding cannot be extracted from the rapist.

I'm pro-conscious choice, as opposed to the braindead zealous fanatics percentage of either side in the USA. Many years ago, at school, we got to see the movie Citizen Ruth... My class found it hilarious and ridiculous. But then the teacher informed us about that the movie wasn't really that far-fetched (he had lived in various places in USA for a decade), and made us check out various reports about events different sides did in the pro-life/choice debate in USA. It was frightening. Especially the zealot hypocricy and double-standards, and the stubborn refusal to acknowledge that the world isn't black and white.

I am aware of that most people in the USA aren't like that, and I'm in no way holding it against the average citizen. USA at least isn't as bad as in many other countries when it comes to such things, though it's also not exactly one of the top countries in that field either...