"Children conceived in rape can be the most compelling witnesses of that unanswerable truth: that every human child is a gift from God...

... And we have prominent examples: Attorney and much sought after speaker Rebecca Keissling and activist Ryan Bomberger come to mind."

Here is Rebecca Kiessling's story.

I like to consider myself pragmatic. I have long accepted the "Lincoln approach." Abraham Lincoln's pre-Civil War strategy to slavery was to restrict it where possible, and put it on the road to extinction. It seems to me that the rape exception is pragmatically justified as a trade-off against abortion as a form of birth control, and because of the trauma associated with rape.

And then I run into this:

And I think, "no, she didn't deserve the death penalty."