Abortion opponents once agreed rape and incest were 'exceptions.' What changed?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

When Alabama approved an abortion ban in 2019 without exceptions for victims of rape and incest, it wasn’t just some prominent Republicans who disagreed with those exclusions. Televangelist Pat Robertson called the law “too extreme.”

But since then, rape and incest exceptions – once an accepted part of proposed abortion restrictions and supported by a series of Republican presidents including Donald Trump – have been increasingly rejected by conservative state legislatures.

Rape and incest exceptions were excluded in 24 of 30 abortion bans and restrictions enacted by states including Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, Arizona, Florida and Missouri in the last few years, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which tracks abortion laws.

Among 92 proposals for abortion restrictions pending in states this year alone, only a handful contained those exceptions, said Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst for Guttmacher, which supports abortion rights.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abortion-opponents-once-agreed-rape-090234444.html

[unitedwethrive]

1. They've spent years teaching their cult member about the "slippery slope"

and apparently feel that it applies to everything. Logical facts be damned.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Tbf, I find it a lot more honest when people who say they believe abortion is murder don't allow

exceptions for rape or incest. If you're going to be extreme, at least be consistent!

[Wounded Bear]

4. Yeah, I guess it makes a perverted kind of sense...

Hopefully, this will enhance the backlash against the forced birthers.

[Pobeka]

3. Misogyny shrouded in religion

Simple as that. This is deep seated hatred of women ever having anything resembling respect or independence.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

5. They hate and fear women of all ages and want them to suffer, and are no longer pretending

otherwise.

[Walleye]

6. Drunk with power

[roamer65]

7. Creeping fascism.

From Mussolini style to near Nazism.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Toxic Absolutism

[Freddie]

9. Cruel and unusual punishment

Is prohibited in the Constitution - oh wait, that’s only for criminals! Cruel and unusual punishment for crime VICTIMS is A-Ok!
What they’re really saying is the diseased spunk of a monster deserves more rights than the woman. After all, we’re just vessels.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

10. Here's the essential problem.

I don't buy into their banning of abortion. I don't share their beliefs. Why are they trying to force their religious beliefs on me?

I do think the underlying problem is that those opposed to abortion, especially those opposed to all abortions, no exceptions, are stuck in the belief that women walk past an abortion clinic when 8 1/2 months pregnant and think, "Darn, I'll have an abortion now" as if no actual thought precedes the decision.

In reality, women think long and hard before having an abortion, even if the circumstances are such they see no other possible choice. Men simply don't get it. They can't get pregnant, and so they think having an abortion or having the baby is a bit like the decision to order a hot dog or a hamburger at a restaurant. They haven't a clue.

And these are precisely the men who think guns are fine, should be available to everyone one, and gosh, what a shame that school kids get killed but oh, well, that's the price we pay for guns. Clearly none of them have ever lost anyone to a mass shooting.

[musette_sf]

11. This:

They want women to die from compromised pregnancies.
They want women to die from illegal unsafe terminations.
They don’t care if an impregnated child rape victim kills herself as a last resort.
They don’t care that the leading cause of death for pregnant women is domestic violence.
BECAUSE DEAD WOMEN CAN’T VOTE.

They want to make every woman seeking pregnancy termination a felon.
BECAUSE FELONS CAN’T VOTE.

Jane Crow disenfranchisement.