re: What would you say to a Yazidi woman raped by ISIS who wanted an abortion?

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I'll tell you why you're self righteous. With a girl who has been brutally rapped, I see a victim. I see someone who is greatly suffering and needs the help she can get, and doesn't need to be constantly reminded what happened to her by having a cancerous tumor growing in her for 9 months and certainly not raising the damn thing and see her rapist every other time she looks into her child's eyes. I see her as needing to solve this trauma as quickly and painlessly as possible, and that means aborting the kid.

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Clearly you don't think the unborn child "counts" as a person, so obviously you have no problem killing it. And by extension, you think it's awful to give any sort of viability to the notion that the unborn child should have any "right" to life that supersedes the happiness of the victim mother. I understand you, and I don't agree with you.

The mother is certainly a victim, but as soon as the abortion takes place, there are now two victims instead of one.

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You on the other hand look at this person who was the victim of a horrible crime as a murderer who is no better than a man who goes and kills a 5 year old at a pizza party. That's why you're a judgmental self righteous a-hole who completely doesn't understand reality.

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Not sure where you got this from. I think abortion is just as immoral as murdering a 5-year-old at a pizza party, but I certainly feel more sympathy for the rape victim than I do from the one who goes on some sort of cold-blooded spree. That isn't the point, though. The point is that I believe certain actions are immoral regardless of whether or not I understand or sympathize with those actions.

I sympathize with the father who beat the rapist of his daughter to death, but I also believe that such an act is still murder and immoral. I can emotionally connect with the man while at the same time say that he broke the law (I guess unless you're in Texas).