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Rape exceptions are tricky. They sound good, but frequently the details make them untenable. If all it takes is an assertion by the woman, then every abortion just becomes a rape abortion. But if you have to formally accuse them, how does that process play out? How quickly? How effectively can someone force her to give birth anyway just by slow-walking the paperwork?
Women will have to prove they're raped, which will then require an invasive examination for things like genital tearing and a police report.
Many women who get raped do not have the psychological fortitude to do that. Many women don't even want to report a rape because of how traumatic it was. Until Roe was ended, they didn't have to. They could just go and get an abortion, no questions asked.
Yes but also even more. Not every rape is violent. If tearing is required, I'd suggest the vast majority of rapes wouldn't even count.
Completely agree with your second paragraph. No notes.
Yes, you're right. I should have clarified that the examination might not even find any evidence of rape even if it happened.
I mean, six weeks from last period, I don't think that running the paperwork at an accelerated speed for bureaucracy is going to make that cutoff.
The exceptions are bullshit, bureaucracy doesn't speed up just because a person who is pregnant says they were raped or a victim of incest or their life was in danger. It just makes it seem like they are protecting rape and incest victims while really doing nothing, that Texas mother whose life was at risk still couldn't get an abortion. She had to leave the state to get it done.
The speed of bureaucracy just means more children being born since the court will be dragging everything out.
How many women would say they were raped so they could get an abortion and let a person get convicted over it? There's tons of stories of teens winding up pregnant and telling their parents they were raped rather than facing what their parents would do/think of them.
See this is why rape exceptions are so hard to get,
Not for the reasonableness of the above cited scenario, but the sheer paranoia conservatives exhibit about having a fast one pulled on their dumbshit morals that escalates to the point of being willing to let women die rather than risk someone being able to pretend to have a complication, no matter how difficult that would be, to slip an abortion past the wannabe morality police.
"Better Ten Innocents Hang than Let Even One Criminal Go Free!"
If the other option was to be prosecuted for murder for lying in order to have an abortion, probably a lot more than it happens today.
Personally, I'd think that just having the abortion in another state would be more appealing than either of those two options.
I was under the impression that republicans have made that very difficult.
How so?
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/anti-choice-states-arent-satisfied-now-they-want-to-punish-traveling-for-abortions
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/abortion-travel-restrictions-texas-republicans-1385437/amp/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna38301
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/31/idaho-abortion-travel-ban-women-girls-social-trust
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/29/abortion-state-lines/
Wasn't that hard to find out that republican lawmakers want to bam travelling out of state for abortions. Idaho already have one too.
Trump is campaigning on a national ban for one.
Which, of course, the teens you're talking about who don't want to tell their parents can definitely take the time and have the money to pay for, right?