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...Harvard Law School professors involved with the year's two most sensationalized cases of sexual harassment and rape debated the reliability of the women who bring such accusations Wednesday in a law school forum...
...some places they won't be able to. naral predicts that 13 states will ban abortion outright, though typically with exceptions for the so-called hard cases: when the life of the mother is at risk, the fetus is seriously deformed or the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest. Other states are likely to be satisfied with a raft of new restrictions, such as 24-hour waiting periods and laws requiring clinics to be equipped as hospitals, which would drive up prices. Parental notification laws, already in place in 18 states, will be even more widely adopted, posing problems...
Tabulating the answers from a cross section of 4,000 women, the survey authors estimated that more than 12 million American women have been raped at least once in their life, but the true shocker is that 61% of rape victims were younger than 18 at the time of their attack. Three out of 10 had not yet reached their 11th birthday. In almost 80% of cases the victim knew her rapist...
...testimony to the continued stigma of rape, only 16% of the assaults are reported. Half the victims surveyed said they would be "much more likely" to go to the police if assured their name would not be used. As a result, the survey's authors recommended that more states adopt laws to keep the names of rape victims confidential...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Source: National Victim Center}]CAPTION: RAPE VICTIM'S AGE . . . AND RELATIONSHIP TO RAPIST