If it made exceptions for rape and incest, victims would have to prove they’re victims. That’s gonna be hard, re-traumatizing and dangerous for some people. Rape kits? Police reports? The victim is a child? Nothing is enough proof for the people in charge who are anti-abortion. Countries with these exceptions still force 13 year old girls to carry the pregnancy to term, even if the girl could die.
The only way to protect girls’ and women’s (and all gestational parents’) reproductive rights is complete access to legal abortion.
If it made exceptions for rape and incest, victims would have to prove they’re victims. That’s gonna be hard, re-traumatizing and dangerous for some people. Rape kits? Police reports? The victim is a child? Nothing is enough proof for the people in charge who are anti-abortion. Countries with these exceptions still force 13 year old girls to carry the pregnancy to term, even if the girl could die.
The only way to protect girls’ and women’s (and all gestational parents’) reproductive rights is complete access to legal abortion.
Oh, of course, there should absolutely not be any conditions for this kind of thing.