Less than half of 1% of all abortions are for rape. As horrible and devastating as rape is, I do not believe it justifies abortion. 1. It is not morally right to punish the child for the sin of his/her father. 2. While rape is an act of violence against the mother, so too is abortion. 3. It is never right to commit murder to alleviate suffering. It is not right to require the child to forfeit life in order to ameliorate the mother’s pain. 4. A child conceived by rape is no less human, no less a person with dignity and value, than a child conceived in love. Nowhere in Scripture is a person's right to life conditional on how one’s life began.