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Strict reporting requirements are a vestige of the way the legal system treats rape victims. It has taken years to reverse the assumption that women fabricate claims of rape and incest or that they somehow bring the crime on themselves. Until recent reforms, a victim's testimony alone was not enough to convict a rapist, although it was enough to convict any other kind of criminal. Even now, a rape victim who goes to court often finds herself on trial as much as her attacker is. As a result, rape is one of the most underreported crimes in America...
...Idaho veto and the pending one in Louisiana have not caused pro-lifers to retreat from their position on rape and incest. National Right to Life Committee spokeswoman Smith cites Pennsylvania's experience to show that women lie about rape. When the state did not require that rape or incest be reported to appropriate authorities, an average of 36 rape-related abortions a month were paid for by the state. When reporting requirements took effect in 1988, that number went down to about three a month...
Relatively few abortions are at stake here -- less than 1% of the 1.6 million abortions performed annually result from rape or incest -- yet the pro-life movement is determined to fight over each one. The movement insists that its position springs from religious beliefs that allow no compromise. Indeed, the harsh logic of the abortion argument makes the exception for rape and incest vulnerable to a charge of hypocrisy. If all fetal life is sacred, as pro-lifers insist, there should be no distinction between pregnancies that result from consensual sex and those that result from force. Otherwise, bearing...
...debate have vowed to battle it out, somehow assured they can win over the middle. NARAL's Michelman is determined to convince the public that parental-consent laws are a sham. Pro-life and pro-choice forces in Congress pledge to wage the fight over funds for rape and incest victims again and again, every time Boxer or her allies attach a rider to a bill. "We'll debate this till we're blue in the face, and there will be blood all over the chamber," says Hyde. And despite the defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in Idaho...
...inability to come to grips publicly with so private an issue. In a Los Angeles Times poll last year, 61% of those interviewed said abortion is morally wrong; 57% of them believe it is murder, yet 51% think it should remain a woman's decision. When rape and incest and parental authority enter into the mix, the numbers become ever more confusing...