From a pro-life perspective, the only questionable part of Mourdock’s position should be his willingness to allow abortion to save a mother’s life. Would it be okay to kill a three-year-old if, somehow, that were the only way to save her mother?
Poor reasoning: the life of a fetus is contingent on the life of the mother, unless the mother's"death" could still permit her body to function as a zombie incubator. The charitable understanding of Mourdock's conclusion is that when the choice is between the death of both versus the death of only the "unborn child", the latter is the correct, if tragic, choice.
