You can’t be pro-life and have exceptions . . . either you’re dealing with a living human or you aren’t . . . exceptions are what liars and losers use.
It is either a living creature guaranteed life or it isn’t. There is no waffling. You’re starting to get on my nerves.
A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways . . .
If you’re a Christian, you believe that God knew you BEFORE you were in your mother’s womb.
The problem is that you are dealing with two human lives. If your wife has a tubal pregnancy it will kill her and the baby will probably not survive either. But you want no exceptions, so you let them both die. Or it might be the case that the pregnancy will probably kill the mother, but she wants her baby to live so she goes ahead with it. On the other hand, she might decide to live and try for another baby later. This is a tough decision. Do you really want it to be made in the criminal justice system?
In the case of sexual abuse, either rape or incest, the woman may want to carry the child to term. However, she may not be strong enough to do that, particularly if she is a child herself.
The question is what threshold does our society want to set that indicates our reverence for the life of the mother and the baby and at the same time does not criminalize really heart wrenching decisions.
From a medical doctor with real Western ethics, I may trust this method of decision. However, we don’t have doctors with ethics anymore. They are into humanist bio-ethics. That is when they decide to test drugs on children instead of lab rats as they recently did.
If they give psychiratry power over deciding who and what is sane and what is not based on political correctness (in a gun ownership examination, for example), we will be the soviet union in no time. Marxists/fascists love this stuff. Hitler used that profession for the murder of the mentally unfit, handicapped, worthless, etc. Heck, America had a program to sterilize the “mentally unfit.”
IMHO Rand Paul is a political chamelion. His appearance changes to appear similar to whatever background he inhabits at any given moment. He currently is buddying up to conservative types, so he’s taken on the appearance of one of them.
I don’t trust him any farther than I did his old man.
"Mr. Candidate, if a twelve-year old girl is raped by her uncle, should she be required by law to continue the pregnancy to full term and give birth? Yes or no, sir???"