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- From: Suzanne-lucia.Demitrio@launchpad.unc.edu (Suzanne-lucia Demitrio)
- Subject: Re: Medical Enforcers? (Was: Holtsinger on Harassment & Health)
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 04:42:54 GMT
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- garvin+@cs.cmu.edu (Susan Garvin) writes:
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- >->I think that your scheme would deny abortions to women who
- >->aren't wealthy and/or well-connected.
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- Yes ... the doctors' legal risk would translate into very high costs; in
- practice only those women who could pledge to pay for good lawyers in the
- event of a judicial review would be able to have third-tri abortions.
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- Indigent women have enough trouble getting decent attention from one
- doctor, never mind two; and who would ever take that expensive legal
- risk for them?
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- Fortunately our legal system is designed not to allow abuses like
- Elizabeth's proposal.
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