[SJackson]

muawiyah: “You can treat these as rhetorical questions, but I’d think you’d have to agree that the “rape exception” is a rather difficult exception to administer.”...Yes. I agree a “rape exception” is a difficult exception to administer. However, if that’s what it took to actually eliminate the other 99.9% of abortions, then that’s an exception I’d embrace. We could easily get a political majority to support restrictions on abortion in all but extreme cases, like rape and incest. I would not delay saving the 99.9% in order to save the 0.1%.

It's impossible to administer. Presuming you've got the perp identified, it's done in a court of law. He's not going to admit to rape so his victim can have an abortion, so you're dealing with a process longer than pregnancy. In the case of incest you've got the minor. But not all rapes are physically violent to the extent you've got overwhelming evidence of an assult. The essential evidence the medical community would have available isn't much different than for consensual sex. To deny any abortion the medical community would have to prove the woman a liar. I'm guessing planned parenthood wouldn't do that very often.

What Paul is proposing is essentially abortion on demand, up to some undetermined point. But with a wink of the eye like most of his policies. This simply isn't a pro-life position.

[muawiyah]

At the same time I am convinced Dr. Paul would think highly of the idea of executing rapists anyway.

Maybe his place is on the USSC for 3 to 5 years eh~

[wagglebee]

What Paul is proposing is essentially abortion on demand, up to some undetermined point. But with a wink of the eye like most of his policies. This simply isn't a pro-life position.

You nailed it right there.

Paul claims to be pro-life, but his position has ALWAYS been to allow abortion. He is no different than every Democrat who says, "I'm personally pro-life, but..."

[Grunthor]

So you need to know who the criminal IS prior to knowing if there was a crime comitted? Have you EVER worked in Law Enforcement?

[Cicero]

Exactly. The “rape” exception would be the same as the “health” exception. Presumably it would include mental rape, just like mental health.

And that’s not even considering that even a real rape is not the baby’s fault, and that experience shows that its even MORE depressing to get raped and kill the baby than it is to get raped and give the baby up for adoption.

Ron Paul is playing to both sides, as usual. He has absolutely no real moral principles whatever. He has proved that again and again over the years.