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To: Dayuhan who wrote (17258)	4/22/2000 1:50:00 AM
From: E	Respond to of 769667

Wouldn't the practical result of this simply be a lot of pregnant women travelling from more restrictive states to less restrictive ones? Or are we not supposed to consider practical results when contemplating legislation? The practical result you envisage is an idealized one, in fact. For many pregnant women traveling from one state to another isn't possible. They have no car... They have no money for a hotel, or a plane, or even a bus... They can't take time from their job... Their insurance won't cover out of state non-emergency treatment... The local clinic isn't allowed to tell them what steps to take next... They don't want the man involved to know, or anyone to know, so can't go for the length of time a trip would take.... For a certain number of women (not the wives and mistresses and daughters of the state legislators, of course!), instead of the interstate trip, it will mean giving birth to an unwanted child or going back to the illegal kitchen table abortion and its attendant horrors. (I knew a woman who had an abortion on her kitchen table without anesthesia by a masked stranger who said that if she screamed he would walk out because the police would come. It was agony, but she actually felt relatively lucky, afterward, because she didn't get a perforated uterus or an infection or uncontrollable bleeding. The stranger was medically competent, at least.) I wish everyone had had the opportunity I have had to work for a while in a home for "dependent and neglected" children. To see what can happen to unwanted, unplanned-for children. I knew a child who, at five, spoke in guttural grunts because their mother had, until someone intervened, kept him and his sister for years in a room with only a filthy mattress, and shoved food through the door, rarely speaking. This five year old flew into frequent rages and would climb onto high cupboards and hurl himself off, evidently trying to end his life. Perhaps only to distract himself with pain from a worse kind of pain. We could never really find out what was in Peter's mind, because he couldn't talk. He was by no means the unluckiest of the unwanted children stored in my memory. I saw such things. They will, of course, raise children of their own.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (17258)	4/22/2000 10:27:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

That is certainly one of the things that might be argued....