Rape charges are an extreme, potentially life destroying event, regardless of veracity. As a result, intentional false rape charges are as severe as assault and battery, or maybe attempted murder. The uncertainty surrounding many cases makes it imperative that any completely proven cases of rape, or on the other hand, intentional false charges, result in equally life shattering outcomes.

There is only one thing that I would add to what you said: a false rape accusation is a life destroying event. As I said in another thread, I know a rape victim and a victim of a false accusation. The victim of the false accusation was accused to the police but never charged, but I can promise that their will never be a day in his life when he can fully trust a woman, when he isn't looking around, afraid to see the woman who violated him, and when he doesn't remember calling his mother from jail and saying he was accused of rape.

False accusations don't have to reach convictions to ruin lives. Their should be justice for the victims. There isn't and there won't ever be.

There is also the difference between false rape accusations and cases in which there is not enough evidence to prosecute or convict. This is the oddball case in which the woman recanted. While it happens, I would assume that it is relatively rare.

Yes, there are many cases in which there is 'justice for nobody.' The accused and accuser, one is suffering wrongfully, both, perhaps, are suffering.

Anti-Abortionists like to say that if you don't want to have a baby, don't have sex. Abstinence only. They promote the concept of teaching only abstinece to school children.

I can't help but think that if you want to avoid accusations of rape, perhaps responsible behavior - sex only with those people that you are married to, for instance - would be good advice.

Indeed, unless you are subscribing to certain strains of feminism, it is generally regarded as safe to restrict sex to committed relationships - marriage being perhaps the best example. It is much harder (but not impossible) to bring charges when there wasn't physical intimacy of any kind.