Exactly. If parenthood on places like Beta and Athos is planned and calculated based on ability to support the children the unlawful parenting of children would quite logically place the economical, social and psychological burden with the perpetrators/Barayaran rapists.
I don't think Beta even has unplanned pregnancies. Remember that you're not sexually eligible until you have had your implantation (so how the captive Betan women became pregnant is actually quite a mystery, unless it was women in comitted relationships who was already attemting to conceive the old fashioned way).
Since Betans don't even kill animals unless it is for survival reasons offworld it is only reasonable that they'd find it distasteful to terminate a pregnancy (especially since there is no woman who has to suffer for it).
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Date: 2009-05-16 10:48 pm (UTC)I don't think Beta even has unplanned pregnancies. Remember that you're not sexually eligible until you have had your implantation (so how the captive Betan women became pregnant is actually quite a mystery, unless it was women in comitted relationships who was already attemting to conceive the old fashioned way).
Since Betans don't even kill animals unless it is for survival reasons offworld it is only reasonable that they'd find it distasteful to terminate a pregnancy (especially since there is no woman who has to suffer for it).