Connections Between Sexual Abuse and Abortion
Clearly, the ideal way to avoid the rape-and-incest exception to abortion availability is to avoid the rape and incest. The more the law helps prevent such sexual violence, and therefore the resulting pregnancies, it also prevents the violence of aborting those pregnancies.
We can make the case that abortion actually makes sexual violence more likely to occur, as we do in these blog posts:
Abortion Facilitates Sex Abuse: Documentation
How Abortion is Useful for Rape Culture
The Message of “Never Rarely Sometimes Always”: Abortion Gets Sexual Predators Off the Hook
We want to avoid any false dichotomy between the abused and the unborn. One of these two categories of human beings is more directly targeted for dehumanization and killing, but both are vulnerable groups in need of protection. They are too often unjustly pitted against each other in debates. Yet ready abortion availability hurts both. And any measure that serves to help stop abuse will help avoid violence to both.