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Re: Abortion??? - April 17th 2010, 07:23 PM

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Originally Posted by emma01 View Post

People are not going to lie about being raped! I reall can't see why people would forge such an horrific crime, knowing they would get in so much trouble for it!
And well if the women were too scared to file a report, that's sort of too bad, if they desperately wanted an abortion, they would have to file the report.
I know what I said sounded mean towards woman who are too scared to file a report, but I really dont think anyting can be done about them.
One possible reason women may not want to file the report is in about 80% of cases, women knew who the attacker was and 50% of cases was while in a relationship with the attacker prior to and during the attack. So, knowing this, along with rape trauma syndrome, where the acute phase has incredibly severe symptoms of anxiety and depression, women tend to not report. During this phase, they ask why they got attacked and since they more often than not knew the attacker, it's probably worse than any form of back-stabbing possible. Whether or not they'd file a report more often if they want an abortion I'm unsure on but there's a massive presumed population that don't file. Filing a report means they'd have to testify in court and that is something many are uncomfortable with because of the perceived humiliation and shame.

I don't think your ideas are practical at all because women who have been raped should be treated with empathy and care, especially in the days after the attack. They shouldn't be told while in a hospital recovering from physical injuries or elsewhere, "well, time to get a pregnancy test then you can file a report about it". There's a time to say to people to quit their whining and grow a backbone and then there's a time to show empathy. This case it's the latter.