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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.abortion
Subject: Re: Avoiding hasty abortion decisions
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Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 15:32:21 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 21 15:32:21 1984
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The problem I see with your 'enforced-waiting-period' solution
is that it assumes that women coming in for an abortion
haven't considered their decisions carefully.  They may or
may not have, but I doubt that an enforced waiting period is 
likely to make them do so.  I think that the main effect of such a law
would be to increase the anguish of a chosen abortion:
even once a woman had come to a reasoned decision,
she'd have to wait after making that decision
in the name of 'rationality'.
 
I also believe that the Supreme Court has ruled such
enforced counselling or waiting periods unconstitutional
in the first trimester; wasn't there a case involving that
last year?
-- 
Betsy Perry
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