Mark,

We risk steering people down the wrong path when our decisions/advise do not include Jesus' mercy, Jesus' love - being sure that they will please and glorify God. In cases of a woman being pregnant as the result of rape or incest, I understand that despair, confusion, hurt, pain, etc. set in but there is a way that it can be turned into something good. We have all heard of the stories of young women who have been kidnapped/abducted and became pregnant from their assailant. They have come to love their children - it was their child/children who helped them through the horror they were experiencing. In despair, these women could have did something to harm the life of the child in their womb and perhaps there are cases where some did. I am not blaming these women, but I am saying in general, there are no situations that when our reaction is to glorify God, that He will not bless us and award us either here on earth or in eternity. The same for women seriously ill during pregnancy.