A lot of women are sexually assaulted everyday. After the trauma of that, why should they have to carry a child, and a child that has the DNA of her rapist? I personally don’t know what I would do, but I know what it’s like to be violated. My mother is a drug addict and my father wasn’t in my life. We were broke all of the time. We never had money. If it came to my mother getting high or me having food. The drug came first. The drug always came first. I wanted to die most of my childhood; I wanted to not have my mother hate me. I wanted my father to come and save me. My mother never stopped hating me, and my father never came to save me. A lot of people can’t afford a child, and I know “they shouldn’t have had s e x” Well they did. Now what? Maybe the child will suffer and die of starvation, and then you can say how horrible the parents were for not taking care of their child. Adoption is always an option. My mother had the option. My mother’s sisters offered. Several couples wanted me. Well we see that she chose to make my life a living hell. A lot of women can’t bear to carry a child, only to give it away. The ones that do give their child up, I deeply respect. Just as I respect mothers who can make a hard decision to not put a child through a horrible life.