The moral problem of a "rape exception"

[caraher]

6. That's right

The rape/incest exception thing has always been, for me, the "tell" that the real driver is a desire (perhaps not conscious) to regulate women's sex lives (if it's "not your fault" you can have an abortion, but not otherwise).

The "no exceptions" position is certainly more logically coherent with using a belief that human life begins at conception as a rationale to ban or restrict abortion.

Where Mourdock in particular went wrong was the "God's will" angle. You can say "killing the baby" doesn't right the wrong of rape and sound like a reasonable person. But when you start invoking God's mysterious ways... frankly, I'd imagine those who should be most offended should be the religious, for his implying that the products of rape are all just part of God's plan.