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...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...
Short of banning abortion outright, the pro-life movement is lobbying legislatures to impose reporting requirements on victims of rape and incest that would make such abortions nearly impossible to obtain. Says the National Right to Life Committee's spokeswoman, Susan Smith: "We do everything we can to eliminate abortions and to prevent funding for rape and incest, but where it is inevitable we lobby for tight reporting requirements to prevent fraud." The new tactic was explained at the National Right to Life Committee convention in Sacramento last month by Scott Fischbach, the group's field coordinator: Laws that...
Smith and Fischbach scored a temporary victory in Idaho last March with passage of a bill that would have permitted legal abortions only if a woman's life was endangered, if an incest victim was under 18, or if the rape was $ reported to the police within seven days (when a victim would not yet know whether she was pregnant). Pro-life Governor Cecil Andrus vetoed the bill, calling the seven-day provision punitive and "without compassion." He added, "On the eighth day, ((the woman)) ceases to be the victim and becomes a criminal...