re given care
necessary to sustain their lives.
Some women choose abortion after having an amniocenteses or other medical
technique used to diagnose birth defects. These techniques permit them to avoid giving
birth to an incurable illness or severely retarded infants that would be degraded in today's
society. Less than three percent of such tests result in abortion (Novak 47).
Forcing a woman to bear a rapists child is torture of the victim of a heinous crime.
Five point four percent of rape victims become pregnant (Roleff 53). Many rapes are not
reported immediately and some are not reported at all. Women should not have to
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