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In article <1992Nov18.221201.17685@ncsu.edu>, blchapma@eos.ncsu.edu (BEKKI LYN) 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.

Yes but there is a "risk" although a small one, in any surgery including abortion
therefore you repulse yourself on your beliefs.  The issue of false rapes
is what makes me wonder of the logic of giving exceptions in a total rape outlaw.

-Johnathan