Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Coming to America: Forensic vagina inspections?


I've been reading a number of blog posts about the abortion situation in El Salvador. I strongly suspect this story is spun out of control, but I don't know any more to contradict it. Here's some interesting tidbits:


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Those concerned about the quandary of aborting women in a post-Roe America need only look back to pre-Roe America for answers. What do state abortion laws say that will be reactivated if Roe v. Wade is overturned?

"The rule in virtually all the states was that doctors were prosecuted as the perpetrators of the crime," responded Clarke Forsythe, lead attorney for Americans United for Life, to that question. "I don't know of any prosecution of aborting women in the 20th century."

Indeed, it was hard for Hitt to find a Salvadorian mother imprisoned for abortion. This is because, as he finally admitted, "Typically, the woman can avoid prosecution altogether if, after she is arrested, she names the provider."

This is also because, as Hitt also admitted, "there has been a decline in the incidence of harrowing coat-hanger/pesticide-type abortions in the time since the law was passed."

Imagine that – and imagine why – although Hitt credited the drop more to new and improved illegal abortions using the drug misoprostol.

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49919