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I've always felt that the pro-life all or nothing position on abortion was a losing argument. Anytime the abortion crowd trots out those three exceptions to pending legislation that would ban or severely restrict abortion on demand, they gain enough public support to derail any changes to the status quo.
I think that if we accepted these three exceptions we would move a lot closer to ending this abomination in this country. First of all, rape, incest and health of the mother account for a very small percentage of abortions performed. Typically 2-3% each of procedures performed. With the advancements in prenatal medicine, health of the mother is an excuse that has, and will continue, to steadily diminish. Rape and incest are crimes. DNA testing can identify who the father is. If we prosecute some these boyfriends who fathered these children through "rape or incest", I think we will see a rapid erosion of the viability of that excuse.
By accepting those three exceptions for now, I think we can begin to incrementally put an end to the murder of thousands of innocents in the womb.

I've always felt that the pro-life all or nothing position on abortion was a losing argument.

It's an example of "making perfect the enemy of good." Demanding an end to all abortions even in cases where the mother would die without it (and so would the child) is not going to go over well in a general election. By demanding absolute ideological purity, you may end up with someone who whole-heartedly supports abortion rights in the White House, and how many lives would be saved in that case?