I saw this posted by someone along with the comments that it demonstrates the problem with government getting too big. Now it is certainly true that government has vastly outgrown its legitimate place in our daily lives, however it is upside-down and backwards thinking to believe that this is the evidence of it.
Elected officials repeatedly and unapologetically exceed their intended limits in a free society, inevitably sacrificing our liberty. The latest and most egregious example is Obamacare, which effectively seeks to control over 1/6th of the American economy. It has become commonplace in politics to simply try to pass a law to 'fix' whatever the politicians think is broken. Most of which is not the proper role of government.
But it is the proper role of government, in fact the primary role, to protect "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness". When it doubt we err on the side of those principles.
The reason that people oppose abortion is because we believe it to be literally killing a human being. If one really believes it to be murder, does it become acceptable because it began with rape? Was the rape the fault of that unborn human being? Is it somehow possible to remedy one terrible, violent act by committing another? The rape victim certainly deserves our compassion, but granting license to kill is incompatible with compassion.
(By the way, the poster pictured here is a falsehood. Romney is in favor of those exceptions. Obama's "truth" team was rebutted by the Los Angeles Times, (the source they quote) but refused to stop telling the lie.)
