The rape/incest quagmire

[Sand Dancer]

I figure there may be a few states that allow rape and incest exceptions for abortion. Just think how many women will cry rape and incest just because they want to be able to get an abortion. Moreso rape most likely because you can at least make up a stranger and not have to blame a real person. This sounds like it would overload the court system. I can't imagine the anti-abortion crowd is thinking about the many ramifications of their decision.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Rape is incredibly difficult to prove in a court of law and I think most people pushing abortion bans know this. It's more about optics than caring about what sort of strain it puts on the legal system. Besides, with how slow the legal system would be, nothing would be determined before its too late to be of any use to the mother anyway.

 

[Altfish]

.... the anti-abortion crowd is thinking ......

Sorry 'anti-abortion' and 'thinking' in the same sentence does not compute

 

[Nakosis]

I figure there may be a few states that allow rape and incest exceptions for abortion. Just think how many women will cry rape and incest just because they want to be able to get an abortion. Moreso rape most likely because you can at least make up a stranger and not have to blame a real person. This sounds like it would overload the court system. I can't imagine the anti-abortion crowd is thinking about the many ramifications of their decision.

I guess I'm taking my mother's word she was raped by my father.
I'm kind of glad she didn't let that stop her from giving birth to me.
Certainly wasn't my fault my father was an *******.

I was also told my father was a serial rapist. I supposedly have 4 to 5 siblings running about somewhere.
I suppose more mothers at that time were willing to give their babies a chance at life even in unfortunate circumstances.

 

[sun rise]

I guess I'm taking my mother's word she was raped by my father.

That used to be and still is in Alito's abortion document just 100% peachy keen for a man to use his wife's body any time he feels like it. I guess if it stays in Alito's document, we'll see that brought up again with SCOTUS ruling if a husband forces sex with his wife, it's not rape from the abortion perspective (or maybe at all).

 

[Wildswanderer]

I figure there may be a few states that allow rape and incest exceptions for abortion. Just think how many women will cry rape and incest just because they want to be able to get an abortion. Moreso rape most likely because you can at least make up a stranger and not have to blame a real person. This sounds like it would overload the court system. I can't imagine the anti-abortion crowd is thinking about the many ramifications of their decision.

What they did here is only count it as rape if it's reported to the authorities... when that went through the cases dropped dramatically.

 

[Revoltingest]

I figure there may be a few states that allow rape and incest exceptions for abortion. Just think how many women will cry rape and incest just because they want to be able to get an abortion. Moreso rape most likely because you can at least make up a stranger and not have to blame a real person. This sounds like it would overload the court system. I can't imagine the anti-abortion crowd is thinking about the many ramifications of their decision.

People never anticipate unanticipated consequences, eh.

 

[Sand Dancer]

That used to be and still is in Alito's abortion document just 100% peachy keen for a man to use his wife's body any time he feels like it. I guess if it stays in Alito's document, we'll see that brought up again with SCOTUS ruling if a husband forces sex with his wife, it's not rape from the abortion perspective (or maybe at all).

It was in the 70s before marital rape was even against the law. Pretty sad.