Word: incest
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Sometimes when it is not feasible to make abortions following rape or incest illegal, the movement settles for cutting off Medicaid funds. "Rape and incest are tragedies," says Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, author of the federal restriction, "but why visit on the second victim, the unborn child that is the product of that criminal act, capital punishment?" Forcing only poor women to have the children of their rapists, says the pro-choice movement, shows how heartless the right-to-life movement...
...this issue, like that of parental involvement, is not so simple. The victim of rape or incest is often herself an innocent child in need of saving. Pamela (a pseudonym) was a seventh-grader in Washington when she was allegedly raped by her stepfather. When her mother discovered she was pregnant, she took her to a Planned Parenthood clinic just ten blocks from the White House to arrange an abortion. "She was pitiful," recalls clinic director Mary Vandenbroucke, who had to break the news that Medicaid would not pay the $400 cost of an abortion, even for a case like...
...ambivalent majority of Americans, the pro-choice movement is on the wrong side of parental consent: 69% of adult Americans favor laws requiring a teenage girl to get her parents' permission before having an abortion, according to a TIME/ CNN survey. Similarly, pro-lifers lose support over rape and incest: 84% of those polled believe the Government should pay when a rape victim needs an abortion and cannot afford it, and 77% when incest is involved...
...Parental notification is not a battle pro-choicers should fight in public, although the pro-lifers force them to. It defies the common sense of most people," says William Schneider, resident fellow of the American Enterprise Institute. "The same goes for being against abortion for victims of rape and incest. People think you're from Mars; it offends them." But neither side is backing down. Their reasons show how intractable are abortion's hardest cases...
...Rape and Incest...