The bigger problem with a rape exception is that it is falsely reported more often than not and that rape now includes anything including the woman waking up and deciding “I didn’t really want to do this” after the fact.Yes! True! The following comes from a man who agrees with you. Whole post is a good read, btw:
But in addition, there are two practical political reasons why not to allow these exceptions:
First, if only a rape or incest claim will get someone an abortion, then lots of people who didn’t get pregnant that way will claim that they did, to qualify for the loophole. The desire of some to get a legal abortion will lead them to tie up the criminal justice system with nonexistent accusations borne of fear and desperation if not malice, and the abortions will occur anyway, just at greater cost.
Second, if we allow these exceptions, we are violating one of the great tenets of jurisprudence: Hard cases make bad law. If something is an extreme rarity, then it should not drive our policy. It’s an imperfect world; if you insist on perfection, you’ll fall farther from the mark than if you had accepted the reasonable. And we know that pregnancies resulting from rape or incest are an incredibly small minority of pregnancies. Except as a political football, the question of allowing abortion as a consequence of rape is simply too small a statistic – a sad, even tragic statistic, yes, but still too small a statistic – to justifiably drive the conversation. --John F. Di Leo
> there are two practical political reasons why not to allow these exceptions:
And there is ONE imperative reason to not even whisper that you would even consider removing these exceptions:
Because you would destroy you and your party’s chance of EVER being elected.
Incest is either rape or consensual (two adults, two minors...).
When the Left says things like homosexuality is about consenting adults in private and then cut loose pervert Democrat politicians who received oral sex from persons under 18 at a roadside rest stop it isn’t about ADULTS or PRIVATE. Neither is indoctrinating kindergarteners in the notion of same sex “partner” relationships and fifth graders in the notion of oral and anal sex. Instructing CHILDREN in PUBLIC schools.
They claim that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare” but have no moral argument for why it should be “rare” since it isn’t a life and protect Planned Parenthood which despite the legality of abortion continues to botch abortions (sometimes fatally) and practice unlicensed work. Planned Parenthood also coerces minors to lie about the nature of their pregnancy so the criminal investigators never get involved in statutory rape (and prostitution) cases. So much for legal.
So when the term “rape and incest” is tossed out there, I question it as well. Sounds good, but basically it comes down to rape. Everything else is consensual (with an ick factor).