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To: ValerieUSA
I find this "news" to be dangerous to the hundreds of thousands of young women who take anti-depressants. Does that mean their credibility is destroyed and they are now fair game for rapists because no such victim would dare report the crime after this case?

Given how many young women today have either a) been given anti-depressants or b) had multiple sexual partners, it would be darned near impossible for a woman to win a rape case on reputation alone (and perhaps its good that they can't win on reputation alone - there ought to be additional evidence). But if, to be a credible rape victim, you have to be saving yourself for marriage and never be given Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, etc., the pool of "believable" rape victims shrinks considerably.

174 posted on 07/25/2003 8:31:12 AM PDT by Tall_Texan (http://righteverytime.blogspot.com - home to Tall_Texan's new column.)
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To: Tall_Texan
I wasn't aware that huge numbers of women in this country have made halfhearted suicide OD attempts. I would be the first to say anti-depressants are not at all a basis for undermined credibility.

But potentially histrionic personality disorder manifested as suicide attempts? That's a whole different story.

177 posted on 07/25/2003 8:34:26 AM PDT by Skywalk
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