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Friday, February 03, 2023

The phony rape exception to abortion bans

Andrew Koppelman

Now that the Supreme Court permits states to outlaw abortion, Republican state legislators are bitterly split over whether abortion bans should include exceptions in cases of rape.  This is an entirely pointless political fight.  Rape exceptions are fake.  Laws forbidding abortion inevitably force women to bear their rapists’ babies.  If you don’t want to do that, don’t support abortion prohibitions.

I elaborate in a new column at The Hill.


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