My point is that rape and incest make up less than two percent of the causes of abortion ... Over 98 percent of abortions could be prevented because it's incredibly rare that rape or incest cause the desire to have an abortion.
OK. I'd prefer that it were 100%, that is, that there were no pregnancies due to rape or incest. Wouldn't you?
Maybe the state should stick up for these innocent unborn children?
They're fetuses or earlier, not children.
Protect them from murder?
Legal abortion isn't murder.
You really like the emotional appeal and tugging at the old heartstrings approach, don't you, but that's not effective unless one feels that abortion is immoral. Most people that object to abortion have spent a lot of time in churches, where they are taught that their god objects to abortion and expects them to intercede on its behalf in the lives of pregnant women wanting abortions. Those not subjected to that religious indoctrination generally have no such feeling, which is how we know that the outrage is manufactured. If it were an inherent human intuition, it would exist in large numbers in people who were not indoctrinated by a religion.
The problem with debating abortion is that the 'pro-choice' side only has an argument if they completely discount the value of the unborn.
Then you don't understand the pro-choicer's argument.
By my reckoning, the value of the conceptus is the potential mother's assessment - nobody else's What pro-choicers value that YOU completely discount is bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom, as well as secular government that doesn't impose and enforce the will of the church on people who aren't interested in what they believe.
Many advocate for freedom from religion. The US Constitution guarantees it, but those are just words on paper that can't enforce themselves from the forces who don't respect freedom from religion - or at least not freedom from THEIR religion - and who will impose it on the unwilling anyway if they can. They are NOT good neighbors, and neither is the church that makes them think that.
If you think that anything I've written there is incorrect or that such freedoms should be superseded by religious beliefs, feel free to make your case.
I can think of quite a few experiences that I do not want to go through every time that I see a doctor. "What is the rubber glove for?"
You'd probably be more alarmed if he skipped the glove.