Hmmm…life is life. The act of conception is simply that. An act. It may color how you view the life you conceived. Possibly. A rape is a violation of a person’s body, mind and soul if they choose to let that act taint the latter. Most humans do and so it affects their very idea about the child.
Whether you conceive a child in a lab or in the sanctity of a loving relationship, the little soul that was meant to be in your caretaking was meant to be. That will not change, It is how you perceive that child that will determine how you treat it. An infertile couple incapable of having a child does not love the child that grows in an outside womb any less, do they? They may not experience the pregnancy, with all its ups and downs the same way, but the dream of “their baby” is all they have to hold on to. The hope of being able to hold, nurture and love this child is all they cling on to.
When a child is born of rape, like Neel was in Full Circle, it was not his fault, it did not make him a less loving, sweet child but it tainted his father, the victim’s view of him for the longest time, until he was by an outside force, able to look beyond the actual act and the feelings of betrayal, which made it happen.
So…there. Those are my thoughts.