# Most pro-choicers have it all wrong.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 19, 2006, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118 "2006-07-19T02:50:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/161 "2006-07-20T13:57:35Z")

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> [@Diogenes the Cynic](#):
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> I don’t think that’s what she meant at all. I think she was saying that if an assertion of rape was ever the ONLY mean left to obtain an abortion, then more when would make the claim out of desperation.
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> My guess is that they would probably invent fictitious and unidentifiable “attackers,” though, rather than falsely finger a real person.

**DtC** , given that both of them asserted that men would be charged with rape, I can only assume that they say what they mean, which is that many women would have no qualms about sending innocent men, quite possibly men they at some point liked enough to have consensual sex with, to prison so that they can obtain an abortion.

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**Author:** ![Salt\_Seller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Salt\_Seller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salt_Seller)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/162 "2006-07-20T14:27:05Z")

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> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Killing one’s offspring because you consentually engaged in the activity that you know has a chance of creating it is NOT taking responsibility for you action.

OK, first of all, it’s not offspring at this point, and it’s not killing. Ending a pregnancy you don’t want _is_ a responsible action. You claim to be pro-choice, but you’re arguing from the indefensible standpoint that pregnancy is a necessary and irrevocable consequence (read: “punishment”) of having sex, all of which boils down to your belief that life begins at conception. _None_ of which is a pro-choice stance.

> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Again I am pro choice, in order to make a choice you have to know what you are getting into. If you had no idea that sex has a possibility of pregnancy you never was offered the choice to engage in life creating activities, the same with rape - you didn’t chose.
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> And the bold part - knowlegable women are NOT punished in any way. She chose a action that created a life knowing full well that her action could result in the creation of life - that life has been given permission to develop by her actions IMHO. She was excercising her right to engage in sex, sex has conquenses including creation of offspring - life - human life. - rights require responsibility - responsibility does not mean punishment.

Permission? Your body performs plenty of natural functions that you have no control over. I really would love to hear your answer to my question regarding contracting an STD. Surely that’s just as much a risk and consequence of having sex. Do you propose that we withhold medical services from these people, too?

> [@kanicbird](#):
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> Again I go back to running blindfolded through a room with a baby in it while having super glue on your leg. If the baby sticks you and you knew it was in there and sticking was possible, you can’t beat it to death crying ‘my body’.

Look, this is just dumb. Change your example to “running through a room full of blastocytes” and it might be appropriate. And I think you’d be hard pressed to find anybody who thinks you can’t scrape off a microscopic clump of cells.

Here’s one for you: You’re in a burning building and can either save a baby, or a beaker full of ten thousand blastocytes. Which do you choose?

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/163 "2006-07-20T14:49:10Z")

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> [@Salt Seller](#):
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> Here’s one for you: You’re in a burning building and can either save a baby, or a beaker full of ten thousand blastocytes. Which do you choose?

Oooh. I like that!

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/164 "2006-07-20T14:53:12Z")

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I like that one too **Salt Seller**. May I have your permission to pose it as a question in a debate I’m having elsewhere?

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**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/165 "2006-07-20T14:55:16Z")

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> [@DianaG](#):
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> Bolding mine.
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> So you \*agree \* with \*\*kanicbird \*\* that most women are lying sluts? And you both call yourselves pro-choice? Because really, I’d thank you both to stay the hell off my side.

When did I say “most women are lying sluts”? I said that there will be more false rape accusations if abortion is treated as a crime and one of the only ways to obtain one is if one claims they were raped. Do you disagree with this statement?

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/166 "2006-07-20T15:02:34Z")

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> [@Meeko](#):
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> Im Pro-choice as well.  
> That being said. Im sick and tired of pro-life treating the Pro-choice side as Pro-death.
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> Pro-choice is a choice. Its not death.

True. And pro-life is not the correct terminology to use, as well. It’s anti-choice.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/167 "2006-07-20T15:04:58Z")

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> [@Aeschines](#):
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> Since time immemorial, reproduction hasn’t been about individual “rights”; it’s been about the facts of biology and society asserting its prerogative over them. You can’t fuck until you get married. You can only fuck your spouse after you get married. You’ve got to raise the kids that you create. You can’t abort your babies–we need them to build a strong Folk!
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> Pro-choicers are essentially saying, “Screw what society wants; what _I_ want is the only important thing. And I’ve got rights, dammit!”

Group A (moldy old patriarchs) = “society” while Group B (pro-choice individualists) ≠ “society”?  
Yes, it is about social structures. Totally so. But a social structure in which relatively unimpeded access to sex (at least between consenting adults) is incorporated is still a social structure, and in a broad sense that in the direction our social structure has been morphing.

[del]You can’t fuck until you get married[/del] Yes you can now. Give or take a silly midwestern municipality, there are very few legal barriers to consenting adults setting up housekeeping , and still fewer ones for single adults getting laid. You didn’t mention [del]You can’t marry except in accordance with both parents’ wishes[/del], which fell by the wayside even longer ago.

[del]You can only fuck your spouse after you’re married[/del]. Again, very few official penalties. Lots of disapproval if you do it behind your spouse’s back, but if your spouse is fine with it, no harm no foul. Even if your wronged spouse is irate about it, your spouse mostly can only divorce you, which was always an option anyway, since [del]Once you’re married, you have to stay married[/del] is yet another one that has fallen aside and doesn’t apply any more. Even “fault”, i.e., obtaining better settlements in divorce as a consequence of your spouse cheating, is fading from the scene.

[del]You’ve got to raise the kids you helped create[/del]. Adoption. Or they may be taken away from you if you aren’t any good at it.

[del]You can’t abort your babies - we need them to build strong Folk[/del]. And herein lies the crux of the changes. We don’t need a vast infant-supply in order to end up with a decently large youth-supply due to the falloff in infant mortality; and we don’t need a decently large youth-supply either, as everyday life no longer ticks to the beat of backbreaking physical labor, we’re post-agrarian now and folks don’t need to work anywhere near as hard as they used to. So you can lighten up with the fruitful multiplying. Sex can be for sex, doesn’t need to be yoked to reproduction by societal intention, so [del]You can only have sex to make babies, no birth control, no sex in a context that isn’t set up to maximize the likelihood of babies[/del] fell of the list too.

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**Author:** ![Salt\_Seller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Salt\_Seller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salt_Seller)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/168 "2006-07-20T15:12:03Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> I like that one too **Salt Seller**. May I have your permission to pose it as a question in a debate I’m having elsewhere?

Thank you. By all means, go ahead!

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**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/169 "2006-07-20T15:14:17Z")

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As to men getting less sex if abortion was unavailable, this is my reasoning, based on my own experiences.

I’m not pro-abortion, and I’ve never had one. I have three kids, only one of which wasn’t an ‘accident’. I definitely don’t need more children at this point in my life, and I know I would consider an abortion if I did become pregnant, though I can’t say for sure what I would do if it came up…I might go with adoption, or change my mind and decide a fourth kid wouldn’t be too bad.

My husband and I have a healthy sex life. We practice multiple forms of birth control, including condoms, avoiding my most fertile times of the month, and lots of messy spermicides (unfortunately my body can’t handle the pill and I don’t want to even try the shot). I am also aware that if I have sex a few times a week, even with methods that are 99.9% reliable, there is a real chance that I may get pregnant again over the years.

This chance is small, but real enough that if I knew that I didn’t have an option to not go through the pregnancy, that if there was a birth control failure and I did get pregnant I would be forced by the state to go through the 9 months of pregnancy and give birth to a child that I’d probably feel obligated to give up because of my financial situation, I would not want to have sex with him. I’d hate to have an abortion, but it’s there as an option for me so I don’t have to worry every time I have sex that I might end up going through another pregnancy and have to deal with having another child out there, somewhere.

Removing abortion as an option wouldn’t only effect single women’s willingness to have casual sex outside of marriage, it would hurt a lot of families.

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**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/170 "2006-07-20T15:24:10Z")

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> [@Blanche](#):
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> When did I say “most women are lying sluts”? I said that there will be more false rape accusations if abortion is treated as a crime and one of the only ways to obtain one is if one claims they were raped. Do you disagree with this statement?

Like \*\*DtC \*\* said, the number of reported rapes by “unidentified” attackers would indeed go up. I disagree that there is a significant number of women who would allow an innocent man to be tried and/or jailed to allow them to have an abortion. If that’s not what you meant, then I apologize for the misunderstanding.

> [@Blanche](#):
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> Removing abortion as an option wouldn’t only effect single women’s willingness to have casual sex outside of marriage, it would hurt a lot of families.

Truer words were never spoken. According to [Guttmacher](http://www.guttmacher.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf) (page 13) 38% of women seeking abortion present “Have completed childbearing” as their reason. The \*\*majority \*\* of women who have an abortion already have children.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/171 "2006-07-20T15:33:15Z")

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> [@DtC](#):
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> Terminating a pregnancy prevents any offspring from ever being produced.

Well that will be a source of contention between us, to me this is a false statement, 'nough said.

> [@bup](#):
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> I believe a fetus - a potential person, doesn’t have rights but should be given consideration. Not for legal reasons, but moral ones

So you think someone who intentially kills a wanted fetus without harming the mother should not be charged with a crime?

> [@Salt Seller](#):
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> You claim to be pro-choice, but you’re arguing from the indefensible standpoint that pregnancy is a necessary and irrevocable consequence (read: “punishment”) of having sex, all of which boils down to your belief that life begins at conception. None of which is a pro-choice stance.

A ‘pro-choice’ stance - I said I’m reluctantly pro-abortion - I accept that a woman should have the right to kill her unborn but fully ‘human’ offspring - but I call it what it is, killing or murdering her offspring. This is for the good of society, to prevent false accusations of rape, and colapse of modern day society. The moral implications of such a action (killing) is on the woman and the doctor - not society.

> [@](#):
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> Permission? Your body performs plenty of natural functions that you have no control over.

True, but consentual sex in not one of them.

> [@](#):
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> I really would love to hear your answer to my question regarding contracting an STD. Surely that’s just as much a risk and consequence of having sex. Do you propose that we withhold medical services from these people, too?

Where did you get this one from? A woman who is pregnant is fully entitled to medical services to assist in the prenancy, the fetus can also recieve medical services.

> [@](#):
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> Look, this is just dumb. Change your example to “running through a room full of blastocytes” and it might be appropriate.

If you accept that full human life begins at conception there is really no difference.

> [@](#):
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> Here’s one for you: You’re in a burning building and can either save a baby, or a beaker full of ten thousand blastocytes. Which do you choose?

I’ve heard and though about this before. The obvious answer is the baby, since we see him visually as fully human, and able to feel pain, suffer, and has emotional attachments to the parents and his extended family. We don’t see these factors with blastocytes. A blastocyte will not suffer, as tempatures rise it will die pretty quickly - so even if it can feel pain, it will be over very quickly. There doesn’t sound like anyone is particularly attached to these mirco-people and it also doesn’t sound like these ‘mirco-people’ have a chance to get past that stage of deveolpement.

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**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/172 "2006-07-20T15:53:48Z")

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> [@DianaG](#):
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> Like \*\*DtC \*\* said, the number of reported rapes by “unidentified” attackers would indeed go up. I disagree that there is a significant number of women who would allow an innocent man to be tried and/or jailed to allow them to have an abortion. If that’s not what you meant, then I apologize for the misunderstanding.

I think there’s a significant number of what you would call “lying sluts” who WOULD accuse a guy they consented to sex with of rape if it was the only way they could get an abortion. I never said they were a majority, but they are out there.

As to the “unidentified” attackers, since criminalized abortion would cause a lot of women to claim rape, there would be a lot of suspicion towards women who claimed to be raped by unidentified strangers. How many times is this going to lead to a woman who was in fact raped by a stranger having her claims considered a lie? Would the courts pressure hospitals to provide the embryo for DNA testing?

“Ma’am, I’m sorry to hear about your rape, but I have some good news. DNA testing on your zygote has shown that the masked man who raped you was in fact your boyfriend. Aren’t you glad we have him locked up?”

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/173 "2006-07-20T16:11:31Z")

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> [@Blanche](#):
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> “Ma’am, I’m sorry to hear about your rape, but I have some good news. DNA testing on your zygote has shown that the masked man who raped you was in fact your boyfriend. Aren’t you glad we have him locked up?”

And on the other side - when rape really happened:  
“Yes Ma’am, suuuuure you were raped” while the cops right down in the book, ‘just another female thought she was pregnant after consentual sex but claimed rape so she could get a abortion if needed’

> [@Salt Seller](#):
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> Here’s one for you: You’re in a burning building and can either save a baby, or a beaker full of ten thousand blastocytes. Which do you choose?

Another varent back at you, you choice is one healthy baby, or 2 terminal (less then 6 months to live) ill babies?

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/174 "2006-07-20T16:27:50Z")

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> [@DianaG](#):
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> **DtC** , given that both of them asserted that men would be charged with rape, I can only assume that they say what they mean, which is that many women would have no qualms about sending innocent men, quite possibly men they at some point liked enough to have consensual sex with, to prison so that they can obtain an abortion.

No, I’m sure that they would refuse to testify and not cooperate. The abortion would obviously happen before the trial.

As an example, in New York, which has backwards divorce laws, men set up fake affairs all the time in order to generate a reason for the divorce. **kanicbird** is totally wrong about his “responsibility” junk, but he’s right that an abortion for rape law would have unexpected consequences. If he were saying that this is a reason not to allow the exception, I’d oppose it, but at least he is saying that this is a reason to support full abortion rights. There are better reasons, but hey…

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**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/175 "2006-07-20T16:30:03Z")

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> [@DianaG](#):
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> Like \*\*DtC \*\* said, the number of reported rapes by “unidentified” attackers would indeed go up. I disagree that there is a significant number of women who would allow an innocent man to be tried and/or jailed to allow them to have an abortion. If that’s not what you meant, then I apologize for the misunderstanding.

I think there’s a significant number of what you would call “lying sluts” who WOULD accuse a guy they consented to sex with of rape if it was the only way they could get an abortion. I never said they were a majority, but they are out there.

As to the “unidentified” attackers, since criminalized abortion would cause a lot of women to claim rape, there would be a lot of suspicion towards women who claimed to be raped by unidentified strangers. How many times is this going to lead to a woman who was in fact raped by a stranger having her claims considered a lie? Would the courts pressure hospitals to provide the embryo for DNA testing?

“Ma’am, I’m sorry to hear about your rape, but I have some good news. DNA testing on your zygote has shown that the masked man who raped you was in fact your boyfriend. Aren’t you glad we have him locked up?”

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**Author:** ![Blanche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Blanche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blanche)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/176 "2006-07-20T16:38:44Z")

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> [@Blanche](#):
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> I think there’s a significant number of what you would call “lying sluts” who WOULD accuse a guy they consented to sex with of rape if it was the only way they could get an abortion. I never said they were a majority, but they are out there.
> 
> As to the “unidentified” attackers, since criminalized abortion would cause a lot of women to claim rape, there would be a lot of suspicion towards women who claimed to be raped by unidentified strangers. How many times is this going to lead to a woman who was in fact raped by a stranger having her claims considered a lie? Would the courts pressure hospitals to provide the embryo for DNA testing?
> 
> “Ma’am, I’m sorry to hear about your rape, but I have some good news. DNA testing on your zygote has shown that the masked man who raped you was in fact your boyfriend. Aren’t you glad we have him locked up?”

Sigh, this is the second time I’ve done this (double-posted). Sorry.

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**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/177 "2006-07-20T16:43:50Z")

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> [@Voyager](#):
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> . If he were saying that this is a reason not to allow the exception, I’d oppose it, but at least he is saying that this is a reason to support full abortion rights. There are better reasons, but hey…

I did think of that when I switched from anit-abortion to pro-abortion, but I can’t justify that a fully human, full person rights fetus has the right to use the female for initial development with out her permission. As I pointed out that permission is intrinsically given during consensual sex, but this does not apply to rape of the female. So even though the fetus is a full human person, he has no place that has offered him a enviroment where he can develop. This is not to say that the mother can not offer him that permission if she wishes, but that choice is hers.

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**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/178 "2006-07-20T16:55:18Z")

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> [@Blanche](#):
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> When did I say “most women are lying sluts”? I said that there will be more false rape accusations if abortion is treated as a crime and one of the only ways to obtain one is if one claims they were raped. Do you disagree with this statement?

I agree with that, but I’ll say that most women will refrain from pointing the finger at a specific man in order to pull off the scam. Jeez…I’d hope so, anyway. Desperate people take desperate measures.

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**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/179 "2006-07-20T17:09:53Z")

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> [@Blanche](#):
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> I’m not pro-abortion, and I’ve never had one. I have three kids, only one of which wasn’t an ‘accident’. I definitely don’t need more children at this point in my life,…We practice multiple forms of birth control, including condoms, avoiding my most fertile times of the month, and lots of messy spermicides (unfortunately my body can’t handle the pill and I don’t want to even try the shot).

Not to hijack the thread, but you & your husband sound like perfect candidates for a vasectomy.

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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-pro-choicers-have-it-all-wrong/365118/180 "2006-07-20T17:20:07Z")

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> [@bup](#):
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> My analogy of killing the dog was universally misunderstood; an abortion is not euthanasia - I was talking about a healthy dog, so that the abortion analogy would make sense. You’re not aborting as an act of mercy.

I was talking about a healthy dog, too. So I didn’t misunderstand, and if that’s the reason you’re running away with your hand stapled to your forehead, don’t. At least respond to my reply rather than just insult-and-dash.

> [@kanicbird](#):
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> > [@DtC](#):
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> > Terminating a pregnancy prevents any offspring from ever being produced.
> 
> Well that will be a source of contention between us, to me this is a false statement, 'nough said.

Can’t you comprehend the difference between “potential” and “actual”. If it’s not born, it’s not offspring, in the true meaning of the word.

> [@kanicbird](#):
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> So you think someone who intentially kills a wanted fetus without harming the mother should not be charged with a crime?

A crime, yes. Murder, no. Probably some sort of property crime. And probably assault, too, as I can’t see any other way to abort a foetus against the mother’s will.  
Look, could the anti-choicers at least be honest - there’s a religious element to your objection, and you want to impose that religious view on everyone. It’s that simple. Show of hands:

Who here is a pro-lifer and \*doesn’t \*believe the foetus has a soul or some such thing.

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