I think your side note hits it on the head, that if they equate it with murder, they can just write it off as a sin without even thinking about its implications. Their refusal to take any sort of a middle ground even when rape and incest is concerned puts them squarely in the extremist category.

South Dakota's law makes my head explode. It also makes me want to open a clinic with bus service on the SoDak/Minn border. If only I had some capital.