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Originally posted by Not Me
As for implementing it, this could be implemented very easily. You would go before a judge and give sworn testimony that would remain sealed. If there was no reason to doubt your testimony, the judge would have no reason not to allow it. It would be an ex parte proceeding and reviewable de novo before an appellate court.
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That is ludicrous. My mom had the experience of being denied medical care (pre-Roe) when she was going through a spontaneous abortion (this is the medical term for miscarriage) because the doctor thought she was faking bleeding (using animal blood, or something) to get an abortion. She had to wait until the bleeding got much worse to get him to decide she really was in need of help. So here we had a woman with blood all over her underwear who was denied assistance with her miscarriage, and you think that it will be easy to administer a law that says you can get an abortion if you were raped?
ETA two things. (1) your "was" in the bolded part above should be "were." (2) My parents wanted the kid. It was a boy. They were very, very upset by it. Since all of this predated me, I'm glad that the medical inattention didn't result in my mom becoming infertile. Well, usually glad.
ETA again to say that the thing about my mom may be outable -- but I guess so be it. And, I would have liked to have had an older brother.
