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by Mark Isler The rape and incest exception — how many times have you heard somebody say, how many times have you heard a politician say, well I'm pro-life and as far as I'm concerned let's outlaw all abortion except for rape and incest. Okay — that is not a pro-life politican. You are not a pro-life person if you say that. Here's where the heavy lifting begins. You know, it is not an easy thing — it is a sobering thing — it is a thing of great gravity to address shall we say the community of people who have been victims of rape and incest and say, guess what? It is immoral for you to terminate that pregnancy. It just is. But I've been raped, they'll say. I understand, and I'll never walk in those shoes, obviously the shoes of a rape victim or the shoes of a pregnant person — I get that. But unlike what Jen Psaki might tell you on a given day, men get to weigh in on this too because it is in fact a human life issue and not just a women's issue. Here's the bottom line. That newly-created life — no matter its circumstance — is either sacred or it's not. The basis of all pro-life-ness is that the unborn human life is sacred, not just a thing that's kind of some value and a thing we'd like to preserve if, you know, there's no inconveniences, or no bad circumstances. Sacred means sacred. You either believe that or you don't. If you believe that abortion becomes okay if there's rape and incest then you don't believe in the sacredness of human life, of that unborn human life, and you are thus — ready? — pro-choice. You may not be as radically pro-choice as somebody who says abortion is okay if you just don't want a fifth kid or whatever, but you are nonetheless pro-choice. The definition of pro-life requires the definition of that unborn human life as sacred. |
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