I, too, am a no-exceptions pro-lifer; I think that the rapist, not the baby, should be the one subject to the death penalty. (To clarify, I don’t consider a treatment to save the life of the mother that has the unintended consequence of killing the baby in the womb to be an abortion.)
That being said, the most principled pro-lifer to have served as U.S. president since Roe v. Wade was decided was President George W. Bush, and he claimed to support exceptions in cases of rape and incest, so I won’t oppose a candidate just because he or she isn’t 100% pro-life. The abortion battle is being fought on other turfs (such as defunding Planned Parenthood, nominating and confirming judges that would overturn Roe, approving CIANA and other pro-life laws, etc.), and right now the difference between a no-exceptions pro-lifer and a rape-and-incest-exception pro-lifer is more hypothetical than practical.
BTW, I’m not saying that I prefer Maragos to Wendy Long (and, as you know, I support Turner over both), I’m just pointing out that our enemy is not the candidate who is 95% pro-life, but the candidates and elected officials who are not pro-life at all (or who are only nominally pro-life yet vote against the Mexico City policy or for a clone-and-kill bill).
“I, too, am a no-exceptions pro-lifer; ..”
Good. We should not punish the child for the sins of his/her father.
I have also voted for people who have exceptions, but when given a choice, I vote for the most pro-life candidate, but I am passionate about many other issues as well.
imo most pro-lifers don’t have a problem with treatments to save a mother’s life, because the intent is certainly not to harm the baby.
It reminds me of a radio announcer, around 5 years ago, who was crying when he told the story of a waitress that works in a nearby city to me, who had cancer, but chose not to have the treatments, and her baby lived, and she died. But this was her decision. What a brave lady, and what love she had for her child.
I heard that these days it is more possible to save them both, but I don’t know that much about it.