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Originally posted by ktsnake
How about this one: husband is completely loving and faithful, wife is a complete hoebag (unbeknownst to him). She screws around on him, putting him at risk for STD's among other things, and gets pregnant. By not being notified, he's being placed in a vulerable position, and at an increased risk of harm.
-- honesty and disclosure are almost always the best options for public policy.
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I don't see how telling a husband that his wife got an abortion tells him anything about who the father of the baby was or whether she cheated on him. All it would do is tell him that she was pregnant and chose to end the pregnancy.
In an earlier post, you did say you believe in spousal notification in all matters regarding reproduction. Does that mean spouses get notified when their partner starts birth control, has a vasectomy or buys condoms, spermicide or sponges?
So, a woman goes to clinic to get an abortion and doesn't want her husband to know for some reason. Are they going to run background checks on each of these women to check whether they are married? I see this as an unenforceable law. All she has to do is say she's single and voila, she has gotten around it.
Honesty and disclosure are good policy in a marriage, but you can't legislate communication in a relationship.
The reason that this becomes the issue that determines whether a number of people support a particular Supreme Court judge is because it's the most controversial and emotional issue that this country has faced in the last few decades. There have been other crises and issues but they all went away eventually. This one hasn't. It's a highly charged issue and frankly, some women are scared to death that their rights will be taken away and they will be forced to get dangerous, illegal abortions that can threaten their lives if they decide they don't want to be a parent. That makes it a big deal to many women of child bearing age.
Dee