Well yeah, of course. As if it was expected otherwise.
I find the person who says "Abortion is wrong, except for incest and rape" odd, since most pro-lifers approach it from "Life begins at conception" but are willing to make an exception in those instances, even though it's still killing a child. I think there are a lot of people who are uncomfortable with saying they're pro-choice (because so many conservatives make a point of equating it to pro-baby killing), but understand that there are legitimate reasons for someone to have an abortion and that it's not a black-and-white issue or an easy thing for any woman to go through. I can better understand being against it except in cases where the mother's life is in danger, but even then it's the same logical thread - doesn't matter, you still killed the baby.
This is an issue I've wrestled with as I've grown up. My parents are both strictly pro-life, mainly based in their religious beliefs, but are also antiwar and anti-death penalty, which is something I can respect. I used to be for it in general, but against it personally. Then me and my girl had a pregnancy scare and my mindset totally warped itself. I was 20, I had nothing in savings, still in college, still living at home, working a shitty minimum wage job, and that's to say nothing of her, who was younger and had no support from her parents at all. And I totally thought about it and talked with her about it, and luckily it never came to that but I was completely willing to argue that side of it. Neither of us were responsible or adult enough to fully take care of ourselves, much less another human being that's far more vulnerable and weak than either of us. And as it happened, we broke up exactly 9 months later. The child would have had to live with a single parent in either scenario, and we all know how much right-wing fundamentalists love those.
So my perspective changed a little. Compounding this was my friend John - the kind of older-brother-I-never-had - telling me and that he and his fiancee have also discussed this, and decided if they found out tomorrow that she was pregnant, they would go through with an abortion simply because they're barely making ends meet as is and wouldn't be able to support a kid in their lives. They want to wait until they're good and ready - when they're financially secure and have a bigger place. Two very responsible people, 5-7 years ahead of me, being able to matter-of-factly discuss this and come to that conclusion, helped me see it that way.
If you choose to see a fetus as the same thing as a human life, I can totally understand how someone would be pro-life, but I don't even care about that distinction. What good is there in bringing a child into a world where he wasn't planned, not necessarily wanted, and will probably have a poor quality of life in adolescence and probably in adulthood too, when the same thing will happen to them?
And these are the same assholes who want to ban contraceptives and teach abstinence-only education, so we can all end up like Bristol Palin and revel in our white privilege if we have it, or be forced to suck off the teat of the welfare system if we don't.
