Case study – After the Concert

Case study – After the Concert

It happened after a concert, Sixteen-year old Mary Kwon had gone with three of her friends to a Taylor Swift show at Chicago’s KeyCorp Auditorium. After the concert, in a crowd estimated at eleven thousand, Mary became separated from the other three girls. She decided that the best thing to do was to meet with them at the car. But when she got to the eight-story parking building, Mary realized she wasn’t sure what level they had parked on. She thought it might be somewhere in the middle, so she started looking on the fourth floor. While she was walking down the aisles of cars, two men in their early twenties stopped her and asked if she was having some kind of trouble. Mary explained the situation to them, and one of the men suggested that they get his car and drive around inside the parking garage. Mary hesitated, but both seemed so polite and genuinely concerned to help that she decided to go with them. Once they were in the car, however, the situation changed. They drove out of the building and toward an industrial area. Mary pleaded with them to let her out of the car. Then, some seven miles from the auditorium, the driver stopped the car in a dark area behind a vacant building. Mary was then raped by both men. Mary was treated at Allenworth Hospital and released into the custody of her parents. She filed a complaint with the police, but her troubles were not yet over. Two weeks after she missed her menstrual period, tests showed that Mary was pregnant. “How do you feel about having this child?” asked Sarah Ruben, the Kwon family physician. “I hate the idea,” Mary said.”I feel guilty about it, though. I mean, it’s not the child’s fault.” Let me ask you a delicate question, said Dr. Ruben. I know from what you’ve told me before that you and your boyfriend have been having sex. Can you be sure this pregnancy is not really the result of that. Mary shook her head. “Not really, we’re careful aboout using condoms but i know they don’t give a hundred percent guarantee.” That’s right. Now, does it make any difference to you who the father might be, so far as a decision about terminating the pregnancy is concerned?” If i were sure it was Shawn, i guess the problem would be harder, Mary said. There are some tests we can use to give us that information, Dr Ruben said. But that would mean waiting for the embryo to develop into a fetus. It would be easier and safer to terminate the pregnancy now. Mary’s eyes filled with tears, i don’t want a child, she said. I don’t want any child. I don’t care who’s the father. It was forced on me, and i want to get rid of it. I’ll make the arrangements, said Dr. Ruben.

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Read the case study above and in three sentences, answer the question below

1) If Abortion can be justified in the case of rape, can a similar argument be used to justify it in a case in which the pregnancy was unintended?