Yesterday I touched on the unfortunate scenario of a woman carrying a rapist's child and how it would affect not only her but the husband as well. The husband is pissed (and rightfully so) because he couldn't protect his woman from that horrible ordeal and she wants to keep the child, but he wants her to get an abortion. They don't believe in abortion but I understand why the husband would want his wife to get one. Carrying a scumbag's child would be a constant reminder of the incident and nobody wants to relive horrific memories. The husband INSISTS on his woman getting an abortion but his wife doesn't want to give up the child because she sees the child as a blessing even though it came into the world under horrible circumstances. This begins to drive a wedge in their marriage because both spouses will not budge. The mother needs to prepare for the possibility of single motherhood and honestly, I wouldn't blame the man for walking because for one thing his wife was attacked and two, she wants to keep the child. Here's the catch: The husband was unable to make a baby due to low sperm count or some other unforeseen circumstance. His woman was there for him so in a roundabout way, she's asking the same of him. She could have left her husband when he couldn't make children but she stood by him and he's unwilling to do the same for her. The husband has every right to feel as he does and as crazy as it sounds, so does the wife. God answered the woman's prayer for a child even if it came through rape; not what the husband had in mind but the child is a part of them. I can't help but think keeping a rapist's child is the rapist's way of rubbing it in her husband's face, like "I did what you couldn't do, which is give your woman a child". To suggest that God would allow this to happen is crazy because God would never willingly put his children through hellish circumstances. Some trials God spares us from and others he allows his people to go through knowing they will be for his glory and our benefit. I can honestly see how scenarios like this could make or break a marriage. In some states, if a woman is raped and gives birth to a rapist's child, the rapist does have parental rights.
