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Rape exception — the child is not morally culpable for the father's crime; killing the child does not undo the evil

Why Every Pro-Choice Argument Fails 00:39:01 – 00:40:04

Q&A — question about whether abortion is acceptable in cases of rape

Mike acknowledges the emotional difficulty of the rape scenario while arguing rationally that we do not execute people for crimes their parents committed. A child conceived in rape is not guilty of the rape. The fact that the child might remind the mother of the trauma does not justify killing the child — we do not kill people because their presence causes emotional pain. The same moral logic that protects born infants applies to the preborn, with no significant value difference between them.

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