Reply #81: No compromise possible

[noonwitch]

It's an all or nothing thing. You cannot legally ban abortion with exceptions. Who decides which women are considered exceptions? The doctor? The court system? Any alleged pro-lifer knows that making exceptions for rape and incest is a smokescreen to convince voters. In practice, very few exceptions will be made, and those exceptions will generally be made for middle and upper class women with insurance.

There are very few circumstances in which I would consider an abortion (mainly, in the case of rape), but if one of them occurred, I would not want to have to prove myself worthy by some legal standard that was written by a bunch of whacko fundamentalists. By the time a criminal rape case came to trial, it'd be time to deliver. And even at that, what are the odds of conviction?