re: #479 ShanghaiEd

My mistake; apparently I accidentally added your tag to a different comment. Sorry.

My point is that I’ve never seen the moral consistency of those who support abortion only in the cases of rape or incest. If abortion is truly murder, then why should the unborn infant be penalized because of the sins of the father? Just doesn’t make sense to me.

Is this one of those serious questions, on how you have “never seen” this moral consistency; or is it one of those passive-aggressive “but whyyyy” questions disguising an attack on moderate pro-lifers’ moral consistency?

Assuming it is a serious question: Salamantis just gave you a very good reason why the unborn infant should bear a penalty (however unearned) for the sins of its father: society’s need to remove an incentive for rape. The infants are unavoidable casualties of this demand of civilisation.

But these reasons have been available for decades now. If you “can’t see” why serious people believe that this exception exists, then IMO you need to squint harder.