It’s one of the rhetorical devices I use when discussing the abortion issue with a pro-abort.
No matter what extreme situation they bring up to justify abortion, I’ll tell them I’ll accept that if all others are prohibited.
Finally they get down to arguing for abortion for all the indefensible reasons.
Is there a home-kit test for black, Jewish, female, Chinese babies?
I think I’m having deja vu here. I once said to another FReeper that I might be willing to conceede abortions for all pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest (that’s something like 1.5% of all abortions) if liberals would allow the rest to be outlawed (I don’t consider terminating a pregnancy that is going to kill the mother an abortion). That would be in line with the position of the vast majority of the voting public. I recognize that the unborn children who resulted from acts of rape or incest are innocent and do not deserve the death penalty for another man’s crime. But think of the millions who would be saved. And imagine the abortionists who would be forced to close shop for lack of business. Only the largest cities could support an abortionist who only served rape or incest victims.