CMV: Being anti-abortion with exceptions for rape does not make sense morally.

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Im pro-choice, up until about 20 weeks. But this post is viewing the abortion topic from the moral framework of a pro-life person, if that makes sense.

If your whole worldview is that abortion is literally murder because the fetus is a person with a right to life, then why would the circumstances of conception change anything? The universe doesnt magically tag a fetus as less of a person because the dad is a criminal. If killing a fetus = killing a baby, then the rape/incest exception is basically saying that murder is okay sometimes, and that doesnt make sense to me.

You wouldnt let someone strangle their two year old because the kid was conceived through rape. So why is the fetus suddenly treated like it has different moral status? The only consistent explanation is that you dont actually believe the fetus is a person, you just dont want to say that out loud because it exposes a giant hole in your abortion stance.

Saying ''Im pro-life except for rape and incest'' just means you dont believe your own argument. You want the moral brownie points without accepting the logical consequences.

Either abortion is murder every single time, or its not murder at all, which means the fetus isnt a person, which makes you functionally pro-choice. Pick a lane. The halfway position is genuinely a cowardly one in my eyes, if you are saying that like a 6 week old fetus is morally wrong to abort, to the point you call it murder, then you HAVE to apply that consistently and you cant just say its okay in rape cases, it does not make sense from your own morals.

Posted Dec 1, 2025, 4:06 AM UTC

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