Irrelevant. Even babies conceived in rape, whose mothers did not have control over their bodies, should not be aborted. The argument needs to be framed in terms of human life.
Correct. "Exceptions" are intellectually dishonest.
Either we are talking a human life, or we aren't.
If we are not, of course the mothers decision on what to do with her own body trumps all other considerations.
If we are, all exceptions are tantamount to murder for political convenience.
This debate has always been based on a philosophical understanding of the moment of personhood. The good news is that medical and technological advances are making it more and more difficult, morally, to push that moment later into the presidency.
I happen to subscribe to the notion that life begins at conception, but I recognize that I am in the minority there.
In the next generation, artificial wombs will become a reality, at which point the viability argument becomes irrelevant. At that point I expect that most of society will favor life, but that there will be a strong element of the pro abortion crowd who will argue that the power of life and death still resides solely with the mother.