The Arguments from Rape and Incest for Abortion By Abigail Knight (Florida)
When I have debated pro-abortion rabid feminists on campuses I always get the rape/incest arguments raised. My response is that yes, shocking, but the problems of rape and incest need to be addressed, and in the case of rape, that would involve delving into race issues. But how much of a problem is rape and incest anyway? Statistics indicate that this accounts for less than one percent of all US abortions. Most abortions are acts of convenience, getting rid of mistakes after drunken/drugged nights out. So, don’t drink and take drugs. Statistics follow.
“Just 1% of women obtain an abortion because they became pregnant through rape, and less than 0.5% do so because of incest, according to the Guttmacher Institute. Yet the battle over exceptions for both has garnered outsized attention in the national abortion debate.
This month Alabama passed a law banning abortions at any time period with no exceptions for rape or incest, only when the mother's health is at risk. Two other states – Ohio and Mississippi – have passed similar legislation, which also do not include exceptions for rape or incest. Georgia passed a bill banning abortions after six weeks and includes the exceptions, but requires an official police report alleging the crimes (research shows 3 out of every 4 sexual assaults are not reported, and out of every 1,000 rapes only five perpetrators are convicted).”
https://www.guttmacher.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf
https://www.liveaction.org/news/roughly-80-percent-late-abortions-elective/
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