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C'mon StanT, it's difficult enough to engage even one of the pro-lifers here
in a low key exchange without..............

stevo, would you advocate implementing a pregnancy testing requirement for
all women from 9 to 60 years of age before leaving or re-entering the U.S. if
a federal ban on abortion could be legislated?

If your answer is affirmative, I anticipate that women in signifigant numbers
would object to being limited to carrying their unplanned and unwanted
pregnancies through a full term and then delivery. How would you stop
or discourage women from using private boats and airplanes to slip out of
the U.S., obtain an abortion, and slip back into the country?

Would it be "American" to implement and execute the means necessary to
restrict exit and entry from/to the U.S. of women of child bearing age, in
an effort to protect the unborn?

Does the end justify the means, and as long as an abortion ban and border
restrictions prevent a signifigant number of abortions, you'll concede the
loss of civil liberties and the expense and inconvenience to travellers and
to the government? If the abortion ban and border restrictions result in
stopping access to abortion to all women except those with the resources
to escape U.S. jusridiction in private boats and planes, that would be
acceptable to you ?

Would U.S. Customs inspectors, when confronted with women who return to
the U.S. bearing certificates from foreign physicians who certify that they
performed abortions because of a life threatening or other medical neccessity,
simply exempt such women from arrest or investigation?

I am assuming that clergy other than priests would also be given authority
to consider applications for abortions due to special circumstances. How
would women without religious affiliation or beliefs apply for permission to obtain an abortion?