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Advocates of Question 1 note that the proposal would not allow the legislature to prohibit abortion in cases in which the woman's life is in danger. That is the most narrow exemption one could conceive. Meanwhile, victims of rape and incest would be forced to carry their pregnancies to term. Question 1 is not a limited measure; it is a potentially sweeping assault on abortion rights in Massachusetts...
...woman should ever have to go through the hell on earth that I experienced. The rape was violent, and so was my illegal abortion...
...Franny Loses A Fight," in The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving style. Giant spiders. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...
...this scene, one of the guys in the theater said, "Oh, just another sex scene"--a comment to which I replied, "What? That was rape." My friend then responded, "What do you mean? They'd already slept together and everything...." Woah. Consciousness-raising seminars like the one on "Date Rape" have apparently done very little to change certain stigmas. Further, what is all the more frightening in this particular case is that I consider this friend to be a fairly enlightened and intelligent person. He is not some sort of neanderthal and has never shown himself to be sexist...
Proposition 1 provides no exceptions for rape or incest victims, however it miraculously and magnanimously allows abortions "required to prevent the death of the mother." Note the use of the word mother instead of pregnant woman. Whose mother? This is not neutral language. Even though the proposed amendment was not written to decide the question of when life begins, the assumption here is that abortion means a mother killing her baby, not a woman terminating her pregnancy...