Sounds like splitting hairs to me. Anyways, who cares? Republicans really need to drop this abortion/rape crap. For Chrissakes, just stop talking about it! It's nothing but a loser. This idiocy cost us two sure-thing Senate seats last year and at least one more in 2010. Let it go. Nobody's buying it.
Here’s the thing. Why am I pro-life? Why are you pro-life in most cases? I’m pro-life for one reason, probably the same reason you are. I’m pro-life because the child is a person. As a person, I believe that person has a right to life under the 5th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution. That doesn’t change in the hard cases. That baby never asked to be here, is innocent of all crimes, and the baby belongs as much to the mother, more to the mother, than to the piece of excrement that donated his sperm. He/she doesn’t deserve to die by being chopped to bits inside his/her mother’s womb in some dirty Planned Parenthood clinic.
On another forum I used to post on, there was a guy who was liberal on every issue out there except abortion. He at first supported abortion in the case of rape, but he looked at the logical inconsistency of his position, and he realized he was pro-life because of his belief that the unborn child is a person, and as the unborn child is a person, he/she has a right to life...even in the hard cases.
If a politician doesn't care about the equal rights of the child, he most certainly isn't going to care much, if at all, about your rights.