Rape exceptions to abortion bans were once widely accepted. No more
WASHINGTON — As conservative states enacted stringent abortion bans in recent decades, there was one threshold they were loath to cross: Abortion was nearly always allowed in cases of rape or incest.
It was a veneer of acceptance embraced by every GOP president from Reagan to Trump, and even the strongest abortion foes, that a woman should not be required to carry a rapist’s child.
Not anymore.
Just as states may be on the verge of regaining expansive authority to outlaw abortion, eliminating rape and incest exceptions has moved from the fringe to the center of the antiabortion movement.
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Chief among these activists was Students for Life, a group made up of students who urged the Republican National Committee in a well-circulated letter to drop the rape and incest exceptions.
“Groups like Students for Life were embracing positions that [the mainstream antiabortion movement] wouldn’t have, at least as openly,” said Mary Ziegler, a Florida State University College of Law professor who specializes in the history of reproductive rights. She called it “a sort of mutiny against the antiabortion incrementalism that had been dominant for decades.”
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2022-04-08/red-states-eliminate-rape-exceptions-from-abortion-bans
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