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In article <1992Nov17.202633.24525@ncsu.edu>, jlharris@eos.ncsu.edu (JOHNATHAN LEWIS HARRIS) writes:
|> In article <adams.721675706@spssig>, adams@spss.com (Steve Adams) writes:
|> |> I don't see how this is going to hurt you personally...don't you think that
|> |> gays deserve equal protection under the law?  And how is keeping abortion
|> |> legal 'pandering' to the abortion-rights activists.  Most Americans believe
|> |> that at least some abortions should be legal.  And the Supreme Court has
|> |> said they should be legal, even though there were lots of judges appointed
|> |> by Reagan and Bush.
|> 
|> Equal yes, but not special priveledges for being different, including marriage.
|> It is pandering, just as outlawing it would be called pandering to the churches.
|> Abortion I *gasp* support in the case of rape or incest, or when the mothers 
|> life is in danger, but there must be some (dunno how) way to prove that a 
|> rape has happened, that remember is (yes I already said this) what the woman
|> now know as Jane Roe said happened to her, and later admitted was a lie.

Women who lie about rape make up about 1% or less of those reporting.
Yes, lying about something like rape is sickening; however, the 99% of
real rape survivors must have their rights protected.

I would imagine that if abortion is deemed illegal except through rape
or incest, the cases of women lying about rape will go drastically up, 
which would make it even more difficult for society to believe the real
rape survivors.

Since most rapists seem to go unpunished, making abortion illegal except
for rape or incest, would pretty much keep abortions from most of the
rape survivors.

Remember too, that a woman is *always* risking her life during a pregnancy.
Her life is always in danger.  A woman can go through a whole pregnancy
without complications, yet die during delivery.  Forcing a human being to
go through such a risk is repulsive to me, and I will do everything in my
power to keep women from being forced into such a gamble with death.
-- 

Bekki Lyn

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