"You two should talk it out! and leave politics out of it!!! " With respect, while you have my sympathy for what must have been an appalling ordeal, from the outset this has been a political issue, namely a Republican State candidate making an outrageous statement about a serious crime. Once religion and politics become involved in issues like this common sense and humanity fly out of the window. Whatever the outcome for you, there are many many, more for whom the result was different and who were denied necessary assistance. I live in Ireland where not too long ago a termination would have been out of the question, no matter what the circumstances of conception - and this because of th power of a church undermined by child rapists and a hierarchy that allowed them to continue their activities for the good of the church. Jim Carroll