Honestly I prefer politicians who say they're against abortion even in the case of rape and incest just because they're more philosophically consistent. I think on some level a fetus should be protected, but now the argument is at what point and how much. I don't agree at the moment of conception because I can't see a single-celled organism as anything more of a potentiality than a human being, but I suppose there is something to be said about even the loss of that. And if you're a Christian who believes a child gets a soul literally at that moment, then yeah it's murder to kill them. Regardless, if you're pushing the "life begins at conception" argument, you have to follow it to its logical conclusion: Even if the mother was raped, why should the child have to suffer for that? Should the kid be killed just because the mother wasn't willing? Does its soul not count?

Everyone was freaking out when Rick Santorum said during a CNN interview that a rape baby was horribly created but ultimately a gift from God, but I really appreciated him for admitting the dark side of his philosophy. It took a lot of guts and I think it's a shit argument, but I can definitely appreciate it.