Soldiers of conquering armies rape women as part of the spoils of war. On taking Berlin in World War 2, Russian soldiers raped hundreds of thousands of German women and girls.
It may have been partly punishment to the German nation for deaths of millions of Russians from starvation, including over one and a half million Russian prisoners of war. Please click:
HORROR OF THE NAZI HOLOCAUST
But the rapes of women and girls had no comparison with the mass killing of German civilians by British Bomber Command.
Saturation bombing of Dresden killed over 300,000 civilians in one night.
The city was one huge fire storm that removed oxygen from the air. Bombing of cities shortened the war by killing mainly civilians. Their bodies lay like charred wood.
But the rapes of women and girls had no comparison with the mass killing of German civilians by British Bomber Command.
Saturation bombing of Dresden killed over 300,000 civilians in one night.
The city was one huge fire storm that removed oxygen from the air. Bombing of cities shortened the war by killing mainly civilians. Their bodies lay like charred wood.
In the modern era, Congolese rebel soldiers routinely rape village women with violence.
There have been millions of women raped in war who have been rejected by husbands as being unclean. It is as if the blame was theirs.
Did they put on their most alluring clothes and go out to greet the invading army?
They would have cringed in fear with their children hoping not to be found.
How does a woman love a baby whose father viciously raped her? The child is blameless. Does the child deserve to be aborted?
How can the child of an enemy become a loving and loved part of a family? Will the child grow to be loyal to the family line of father or mother?
Every man, woman and child has rights and responsibilities. But the unborn child has neither.
If we commit murder, we go to gaol as punishment for our crime.
If a mother gives birth, strangles the baby and dumps the body in a dust bin, the police will arrest her and lay a charge of murder.
But an unborn child can be removed from the warmth of a womb by suction or surgical cutting.
The body can be left on a tray in an operating theatre or on a backyard table before being thrown in a fire.
As with fish cut up before dead, the baby feels no pain, so we assume. Does the baby feel pain only on hitting the open air?
This is done in terms of the rights of the mother. We are told she has the right to decide what to do with her body. But the baby is not her body.
Her baby has no rights and no future.
Abortions take place in Papua New Guinea in the village and secretly in hospitals. Please click:
As porn increases, so does the need for sex education
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Report from PNG Attitude
On a related matter, there are some archaic laws still on the PNG statute books which need urgent reform.
These make homosexuality and adultery illegal (if enforced I reckon this would put most of the Haus Tambaran behind bars); and another which makes abortions illegal.
From Radio New Zealand International -
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PNG medical profession urged to lobby government for abortion law change
A Papua New Guinea doctor says it’s up to the medical profession to turn politicians’ attention to centuries-old British abortion law.
Edith Digwaleu-Kariko made the comment during the New Zealand Parliamentarians’ Group on Population and Development’s annual meeting in Wellington.
The focus this year is on the sexual and reproductive health and rights of Pacific adolescents and a high rate of teen pregnancies across the region coupled with a lack of access to safe abortions was a prominent theme of discussion.
Dr Digwaleu-Kariko says although abortion is illegal it is practised widely at clinics and hospitals.
There are ways to cover it up, that’s why we call it underground.
"Although it’s happening, we as medical professionals, the ultimatum is to save lives so that’s what we work in the name of but then we are also sensitive to the legalities that surround the issue so then we also try to protect ourselves.”
Edith Digwaleu-Kariko says no one has been penalised for performing an abortion but physicians want legal protection.
Posted by: Peter Kranz | 12 June 2012 at 06:57 PM