case study report

1) A Rape Case

Suppose that a sixteen-year-old girl, an honors student, is living with her mother in New York City. One day while walking home from school, she is caught by a gang of thugs from a different neighborhood. She is raped and beaten in an alley one block from her apartment; nobody comes to her aid despite her screams and cries for help. She is left unconscious in the alley, and eventually she is discovered by the police and taken to the hospital. She has a concussion and a punctured lung, and she must stay in the hospital for three weeks. At the end of this time, just when she is about to be released, she finds out that she is pregnant. Her doctor advises her to have an abortion, but she is not sure what to do. She feels angry, hurt, and depressed. Should she get an abortion?