If he had the sense God gave a goose he'd kept his mouth shut on the issue.
Most people would not vote to outlaw abortion in all cases, including rape. I think abortion is evil. I would even advise my daughter to bear the child if she was raped. It would be the right thing to do. However, I don’t think I have a right to force her to keep a child conceived by rape.
I know many FReepers are absolutely dead set against abortion in all circumstances, and they believe government should protect every child at the moment of conception. But it’s wrong, in my opinion, to demonize everyone who agonizes over the extreme cases, like rape. At least have the honesty to admit administering an injection immediately after a rape is not the exact same circumstance as aborting a 7 month old fetus (like Ron Paul was pointing out).
Fortunately, my family has never faced this particular dilemma. I’d also vote for any law that outlawed abortion except in cases of rape or incest. That would be a far, far cry better than what we have now, and I wouldn’t sit the vote out because the law wasn’t pure enough.