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Did you not say, some time ago, that most pro-lifers think that abortion in cases of rape should be allowed?

What I was saying was, generally, most pro-lifers concentrate their fire on abortions after the first trimester. There is some division among pro-lifers on exceptions for rape and incest and it's not clear how that would resolve if the matter returned to the states.

Should we pretend that a woman needs more than three months to get either the morning-after pill or an abortion after she was raped? Are we saying that women are actually incapable of making a 'choice' if we allow them to abort a child up to the very last day of pregnancy? Why shouldn't we expect them to report the rape to the police and get a morning-after pill or to get their abortion after they miss their first period after the rape? Or even the second period after their rape?

Again, we have all sorts of easy methods to determine pregnancy or prevent implantation of the egg. How many choices do they need?

Okay, I imagine that if you allow first-trimester abortions, exceptions will not be necessary. But imagine that a state bans ALL abortions, including those in the first trimester, like the ban South Dakota had. And South Dakota did not even include an exception for rape. Should there not be an exception in that case?