[Bring_Back_Shantz]

I'm not really pro-life or pro-choice, so please don't jump on me, I don't even want to get into an is abortion alright arguement, I just want to point out something that I think is kind of strange. I don't understand the stance of people who think abortion should be illegal except in the case of rape or incest.

Seriously, if you are against abortion I would assume it is because you think a fetus is a live regardless of its stage of developement right? So what difference does it make what circumstances the fetus was concieved under? Is it a life or isn't it? You can't go around using the "Life is sacred" arguement, and then attach a condition to it.

If you want to use the "But imagine the trauma for the mother and the baby under those circumstances" arguement, you could use that just as well for a baby with a sever handicap, or an unloved accidental pregnancy. I'm usually not one to go to a slipery slope arguement, but abortion is one of those issues that really lends itself to it.

So if you're one of those people who think it should be illegal, but not in the case of incest or rape, could you please explain why/how you make that distiction?

All this being said, I suppose I'm actually kind pro-choice as I think that certainly in cases of rape and incest a woman should have the right to choose to keep the baby or not, but I don't like the idea of abortion when it is used by stupid people who do stupid things and are trying to fix a situation that they created.