From: David N. Barnett 

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 22:32:23 -0500, "Geo."
 wrote in message :

| > You cannot make something a crime ex post facto.  If abortion was
| > legal in 2003 and a woman gets one, then it is outlawed in 2004, they
| > can't go back and convict the woman who had the procedure in 2003.
|
| Sure they can, look at the slave reparations that some companies who were
| involved with slavery are being sued to pay.

"Being sued to pay?"  That sounds like a civil proceeding, not a
criminal trial...

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