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As much as I want people who experience rape or incest to have access to abortion, I feel like any person who is pro-life except in cases of rape or incest is just giving away the game that they are only trying to control women.
Because if they actually thought abortion was murder, that the fetus was a life, then it wouldn't matter how it was conceived. It would be like saying that killing your 6-month-old baby was murder unless it was the product of rape or incest, and then it's okay. But that would be absolutely ridiculous. Because a 6-month-old is a person and a fetus is not.
So it's pretty clear, if they don't think it's murder, they just want to control women.
You're absolutely right. And when I meet those people, I specifically ask them what the difference is between a fetus conceived by rape, a fetus conceived by accident and a fetus conceived intentionally. Because pregnancy from rape is not intentional, but they think accident shouldn't be cause for abortion.
I could see a reasonable harm reduction case to be made, but I’ve literally never met a pro life person who supported harm reduction. Maybe they exist, but not in large enough numbers to make a difference here.
The harm reduction case is this: rape and incest are traumatizing enough that trapping a hormone flooded adult with the incredibly annoying and helpless evidence of that trauma could lead to a much worse scenario (the mother also dies, additional children die, the baby is slowly neglected to death, etc.).
I don’t know how good an argument that is, but I can at least understand it.