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Quite apart from the fact that an extremely low percentage of rape cases result in pregnancy, it remains true anyway that a person's right to life ought never to be made conditional upon how the person began.  The basic moral question in both rape and incest is not:  Is this child a result of a sex crime? but rather:  Is this child image of God, person?

Abortion and the Meaning of Personhood, Clifford E. Bajema, page 67