Failed birth control could lead to an accidental pregnancy too, what's the difference between an accidental pregnancy from rape/incest and an accidental pregnancy from failed birth control?
Again, philosophically, there's no material difference with regard to whether the baby has a right not to be murdered. Politically, the material difference is that voters are emotionally more responsive to appeals that it should be allowed for rape and incest. Since our system runs on emotional appeals to voters in order to justify the determined election outcomes, that matters.
This is a very simple one. If you disallow abortion in the case of rape and incest, then you incentivize both rape and incest as legitimate methods for propagating a genetic line.
If the state tries to force my daughter to bring to term her rapist’s baby, then I will do everything in my power to defeat the state. My family doesn’t tolerate violent incursion.
You also make abortion legal for only people that are willing to lie about being raped.
"in the event of rape" Does that mean a successful conviction for a rape? what if that rape didn't cause the pregnancy? doesn't matter anyway because most convictions last longer then 9 months so it's pointless.
So you have to do it on her word alone, does it require a conviction after the fact to be legal? or does someone just have to be arrested for it to be a "rape" before an abortion is legal?
The underlying problem comes to the fore pretty quickly if you spend longer then 5 seconds thinking about it.
It's philosophically incoherent, but strategically useful in the battle to reduce the amount of baby murders.
Failed birth control could lead to an accidental pregnancy too, what's the difference between an accidental pregnancy from rape/incest and an accidental pregnancy from failed birth control?
Again, philosophically, there's no material difference with regard to whether the baby has a right not to be murdered. Politically, the material difference is that voters are emotionally more responsive to appeals that it should be allowed for rape and incest. Since our system runs on emotional appeals to voters in order to justify the determined election outcomes, that matters.
This is a very simple one. If you disallow abortion in the case of rape and incest, then you incentivize both rape and incest as legitimate methods for propagating a genetic line.
If the state tries to force my daughter to bring to term her rapist’s baby, then I will do everything in my power to defeat the state. My family doesn’t tolerate violent incursion.
You also make abortion legal for only people that are willing to lie about being raped.
"in the event of rape" Does that mean a successful conviction for a rape? what if that rape didn't cause the pregnancy? doesn't matter anyway because most convictions last longer then 9 months so it's pointless.
So you have to do it on her word alone, does it require a conviction after the fact to be legal? or does someone just have to be arrested for it to be a "rape" before an abortion is legal?
The underlying problem comes to the fore pretty quickly if you spend longer then 5 seconds thinking about it.