2) If the unborn are NOT human lives, then government has no place interfering in such highly personal decisions.
3) If the unborn are human lives, then the circumstances of their conception is irrelevant as it relates to the government's responsibility to them.
4) If one can deny government protection to one group of the unborn (e.g. those conceived by rape) then one cannot legitimately claim that the unborn are human lives.
Therefore - one cannot legitimately or consistently demand government protection for most of the unborn, while willfully denying the same protection for others.
If government protection can be legitimately denied to that tiny group of unborn conceived by rape, then it can only be because they are not human lives. If they are not human lives, then no unborn is a human life, and therefore, the government has no right or duty to interfere.
Using the “except in cases of rape or incest” logic (that humanity is determined by the circumstances of conception) then would logically deny protection to any adult conceived in similar fashion.
Either ALL of the living unborn are living human beings or they ALL are not. If they are, then their lives DEMAND government protection. If they are not, then their disposal is none of the government's business.
Obviously they are. I certainly would not refuse to save some because I was unable to save them all - but I have real problems with those who make this distinction.
I've been asked what I would do if my daughter was raped and became pregnant. I don't have a daughter, but if a close friend or relative were in such a circumstance, I would express my rage at the rapist, and my love for the tiny life. I would encourage her that God, in His love and wisdom, saw fit to entrust her with that life - even in the midst of her pain. Encourage her to see that tiny life as a gift and a sacred trust from God in spite of the evil.
My mother used to teach me a simple truth that seems beyond the ability of most people to grasp today, at least in a way that affects their rhetoric, policies, and the laws by which they govern themselves (particularly as regards the shedding of the innocent blood of unborn children):
TWO WRONGS DON’T MAKE A RIGHT!