Concejos Unidos wrote:Saiwania wrote:What does getting an abortion mean if the exception is for rape or incest? It means proving to your local magistrate or court that you being raped occurred. This means a long process of accusation, investigation, trial, and settlement and so on to play out. Legal system and processes are glacially slow to play out and can easily be dragged out for 9 months or longer.
Seeking justice from the court for this accomplishes nothing whilst in the meantime, you're getting stuck with a rape baby or pregnancy. And certain people who want an abortion no matter what, will fake or falsify evidence to say they were raped just to get an abortion if that is what it takes.
there's a big difference between convicting a specific person of rape and simply proving that a rape occurred. One is far more simple.
I would like to know how you're going to know that someone is raped? Many people never report it out of fear and shame. So, how would a court determine whether or not someone has been raped?