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Originally posted by aephi alum
Nice.

I hope the women who were misled can sue for damages... significant damages. There's the medical cost of prenatal care, delivery, well-baby checkups, vaccinations, etc. There's often the cost of day care, school, maybe college eventually. Then there's the opportunity cost of possibly having had to drop out of high school or college or give up a promising career. There's the physical trauma of pregnancy and childbirth, and maybe the emotional trauma of having had to bear a child that was the result of a rape. All for a child the woman had already decided she did not want to bear.

I'm a little confused, though, as to why more of these women didn't seek a second opinion at another abortion clinic.

I saw the "Jane Doe" who brought the prosecution interviewed on CNN. She was a college student, who didn't realize she was pregnant at first. When she did learn she was pregnant, she wanted an abortion "because I had engaged in 'normal' college behavior that was potentially harmful to the developing baby. It was not a good time in my life to have a baby. I was not ready for this". She went on to say he stalled her and stalled her until it was too late to exercise the option she wanted and she spent the rest of the pregnancy scared because of her previous behavior and lack of early prenatal care because of his stalling her. Her argument was that while she loved her son and thankfully he was healthy (although premature) she had her right to her decision usurped.