Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!dartvax!betsy From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Re: Avoiding hasty abortion decisions Message-ID: <933@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 21-Mar-84 15:32:21 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.933 Posted: Wed Mar 21 15:32:21 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Mar-84 07:16:47 EST References: <411@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: Dartmouth College Lines: 19 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 UUCP: {decvax|linus|cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay