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Old 03-02-2008, 01:59 PM   #36 (permalink)
FoolThemAll
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Originally Posted by sprocket
In light of the studies that have been done that show that countries with more strict abortion laws don't have lower abortion rates, the argument is more than mediocre, its backed up with solid evidence. The pro-life movement will actually have to convince most of the pro-choice crowd to change sides, before the "murder" stops, regardless of the law.
If rape laws were ineffective against rape, if the real key was to convince some culture of rape to transform themselves into a culture where rape was unforgivably taboo, if solid evidence backed up the 'superior' alternative of providing rapists with 'options'...

Rape laws would still be absolutely necessary. Not tomorrow. Not ten years from now. Not when the country was 'ready'. Today.

The argument sucks.
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