The country did not order abortions. It made them legal. It would be entirely possible for abortion to be legal and not performed. America isn't China. No girl or woman can legally be forced to abort. If girls and women all wanted to complete their pregnancies, abortion would disappear. Always quoting the figure of abortions since Roe v. Wade gives the false perception that a court decision invented the rejection of pregnancy by pregnant girls and women. There were also millions of abortions in the years prior to it. The problem isn't the law. The problem is that girls and women get pregnant who are not prepared to carry to term. That leads to abortion regardless of the law.

"Why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world?" Such as the places in the world in which homosexuals and adulteresses are stoned to death and people are executed for their private religious beliefs?

The basic sexual difference between men and women is that women inevitably have a built-in cost for partnered sex. The man who sees a prostitute compensates for this difference. He does less of a wrong than the man who seduces and abandons, thus leaving the woman to bear the full brunt of that difference without compensation.

Those 800 laws that discriminate on the basis of sex aren't all designed to oppress women. At least some of those Schlafly writes about are based on biological truths. The Mann Act and statutory rape laws specifically targeting adult men for having sex with minor girls are both based on the fact that males impregnate and females get pregnant. Thus, decent men have tried to compensate females through measures targeting those who would impregnate them in disadvantageous circumstances. Laws making sex distinctions regarding military service are similarly based in size, strength, and speed differences that render men far more effective in front-line infantry combat.

I probably should add that, as a true crime writer, I'm very aware that people can survive ordeals. I've written about both men and women who were victims of gang rape, torture victims, and have suffered all manner of horrors.

Carrying a pregnancy to term and giving birth is a special ordeal. It is not one that can be forced on someone in the real world. For example, I've read of women so distressed by pregnancies that they committed suicide. The law was powerless to force them to live to give birth. I believe that those forced to see the embryo or fetus at the stage of pregnancy at which they are at are likely to decide to endure the ordeal of carrying to term. If she doesn't, she can legally abort but I believed "Forced Information" would dramatically reduce abortions -- perhaps even more than outlawing the practice would. I strongly support both abstinence and alternative sexual expressions.

This is what must be encouraged -- immediate medical treatment after the attack. That would render this question moot. That is what we've got to work toward.

As I pointed out below, most rapists are overall criminals. They rape women but assault and rob both sexes. When imprisoned, and deprived of female prey, they rape other men. They are predators. Their backgrounds are often horrible, filled with deprivation and abuse of all kinds. Yesterday's mistreated and neglected child often becomes today's predator.

They are automatically fathers in certain senses. One is the biological. Another is that they can be legally compelled to support their offspring. Contact with a minor offspring is another matter entirely. That could be denied on several grounds, among them that they are presumed to be negative influences.

The vast majority of rapists come from the overall criminal class. They are men who habitually rob, assault, and commit other non-sexual crimes. They are frequently psychopaths and sociopaths. Such individuals are unlikely to register to vote. They don't care about politics one way or another.