I feel bad for all the “no exceptions” people who have been lied to all these years by the GOP about what is possible.
I have mixed feelings about this too. Why is the GOP making promises that they can’t keep? Life of the mother might be one about which even sincere ethicists might disagree; the law about triage situations is well established, and a church might rightly exhort a higher position than one we would expect a government to exhort.
I’d try to deal with rape/incest situations from the standpoint of enhanced social support for women caught in these circumstances, to carry the baby to term and permit it to be adopted if they still do not wish to raise it. The sense that it is an unbearable insult to a woman to require her to gestate a baby that is the result of a rape, is one that dies hard. But it is easy to get momentum behind a meme that this is a beautiful thing for a woman in such a situation to choose, because the baby is not the rapist.
To express a difference between ideals and what Caesar will penalize failure to meet, may be wisdom if it represents a better, more honest position than we have been taking to date.