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“If a fetus is a person then consent happened at the time of sex.” Your hypothetical is not relevant to the argument if the person doesnt give consent.

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Rape doesn’t exist now?

And you’re completely ignoring my comment, to cherry pick the very last line.

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Did you really want to go to the edge cases?

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Firstly, edge cases are important. You made a generalized statement, and stated it as fact. You don’t see how that’s a problem?

Now are you going to respond to the actual comment, or skirt around the question because it doesn’t suit your narrative to engage such a situation?

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Rape isn’t an edge case. 26,000 rape victims have been forced to give birth in Texas in just 2 years (Source).

In total, the study estimates that 519,981 rapes occurred in those 14 states and 64,565 of them resulted in pregnancy. Researchers further estimated that 9% of those pregnancies occurred in states with legal exceptions for rape, while 91% of them occurred in states with no exceptions.

Texas, a state which has no exceptions for rape or incest, was at the top of the list with an estimated 26,313 rape-related pregnancies, over four times more than the next closest state, Missouri, at 5,825.

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