“He may have a point.”
Yes I believe he DOES have a point.
We shouldn’t be reflexive here on this matter. The state of Alabama has given us something to push back against so we can get this horrible conversation moving.
So we can say... Yes this is too far but it begins the conversation about where the reasonable point is. Maybe concede rape and incest... and then only after a jury trial condemns the child to die for the sins of the father/parents. Something along those lines.
Up to now it’s always been a fascist push by the left to infanticide.
An abortion law “with exceptions for rape and incest” might be politically acceptable, but it should never stand up in any coherent system of law. The purpose of using a law like this in a Supreme Court challenge is to put a case in front of the court that is built entirely on the idea that an unborn child is subject to all protections under the law as a real person. Allowing for exceptions in the case of rape and incest would have undermined the core legal argument behind the law.
The Alabama bill’s sponsors have said they’re open to adding exceptions (rape, incest) after it’s gone up to SCOTUS and Roe has been overturned. But for now the law is designed as a no-exceptions legal battering ram.