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[APF]

Frankly I don't understand people who say they are pro-life but allow for rape and incest exceptions.

I feel it's because pro-lifers can make practical compromises, just like pro-choice advocates can compromise on abortion limits. Not everyone actually needs to be an absolutist even if they have strongly-held values; especially if the alternative is untenable and the overall goal--in this case limiting the amount of abortions / having abortions not be "another type of birth control" which was a common talking-point--is still being served. "I don't agree with it, and it's not a choice I personally would make, but it's something I can accept in these horrible circumstances" is not the sort of position I feel warrants needling someone over. In fact I'd much prefer there were more of this sort of person involved in political negotiation.

 

[M3d10n]

Just apply bootstrap logic to the fetus: kick them out of the womb and if they cannot survive on their own, it's their problem.

 

[Tertullian]

People are surprised by this? Most dedicated pro-lifers don't make such exceptions.

 

[speculawyer]

Ben Carson asked about abortion . .

"I spent my entire career as a pediatric neurosurgeon, frequently staying up all night, fighting, struggling to save the life of little babies, even operating on babies inside the womb. So I don't think it should be hard for anyone to understand that I am totally opposed to killing babies," Carson said on "CBS This Morning."

When host Norah O'Donnell asked whether he opposed all abortions -- even one that might be necessary to save the life of the mother -- Carson said, "You have to look at the individual situation."

"That's largely a spurious argument because we have advanced so much in medicine these days that that situation rarely occurs," he said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-carson-responds-to-hillary-clinton-on-abortion/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17

That situation rarely occurs so we can ignore it? What kind of answer it that? Answer the question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Savita_Halappanavar