Christians, How will outlawing abortions stop them?

Question

For the sake of this question. Let's say that Roe V Wade gets overturned by the US Supreme court and that challenge gets upheld by all the legal challenges and the U.S. finally makes abortions illegal other than in the case of medically necessary conditions, or rape or incest. In other words, abortion can no longer be an elected procedure.

At the same time, we all know that if a person morally opposes a law or feels it is unfair or does not understand the reason for the law, they will find a way around the law or ignore the law. (Case in point: how many people follow the speed limit, even though driving at a higher speed is proven to be more dangerous).

So, here's my question to you: How will outlawing abortions truly eliminate the slaughter of the unborn children? Is your goal to make them illegal or to stop the slaughter?

Think about your answer in terms of if abortions were now illegal. Will it REALLY stop the abortions, or just create more problems?

Answer 1

Thre is a very simple answer to your question. It won't. Way back years ago women resorted to back alley abortions with hangers, etc. With today's technology they would end up flying somewhere else to do it or come up with other ways to do it. Roe vs Wade would be ridiculous to retract. Here's an example: A 15 year old girl is raped and becomes pregnant adn runs away to stay with an aunt. Only the father of the child is her own Father. Should she be expected to go to this man for permission to get the baby aborted? We have this law the way it is for a reason. Sure it is taken advantage of by some I'm sure, but how do we know? How do we know that the girl that has had five has not become pregnant five times by her caretaker. I think more time and moeny should be invested in abortion clinics to offer counseling, a place to stay if needed, adn most of all Peer Counseling. Women who have had an abortions or abortions counseling the women/girls who are thinking of or are going to have an abortion.

Answer 2

Making abortion illegal would not stop all abortions, but would eliminate most of them. As of right now 97% are for convince reasons. Something needs to be done because the abortion rate goes higher and higher each year. People would then be forced to go through the adoption process if they didn't want their baby. The question to you is what should we do about someone that has an illegal abortion. The answer is simple, the mother would be charged with first degree murder and then anyone who carried out the execution of the innocent baby would be charged with assorry to murder. The only problem would remain is people that say their raped or had sex with a family member. If their raped then they would need a police report and any other proof that they were actually raped. If they had incest they could match your dna with the other family member and if they were a match then they could get their abortion. If we could cut down abortions 50% thats half a million babies, don't you think that it will be worth it. Its just like murder, its illegal, but yet people don't care. Making a new law would be a good start. Something needs to be done to protect these babies from being exucuted.

Answer 3

In a similar vein, making murder illegal hasn't stopped murder, but it gives us something to do about those who commit it. Making something illegal doesn't stop it, you're right, but it sure slows it down. Should we make murder legal since we aren't stopping it? Can you imagine how many people would be murdered every day if it were legal? Because the murderes would still be walking the street. The same with abortion: if it were illegal, fewer people would get them because we could stop those who were getting them.

Here is a story of an abortion that wasn't, which describes some of the abortions that are. My son, Carson Alexander Kennedy, was concieved right after my wife came off birth control. As a result, her cycle wasn't perfectly regular, and when they ran the tripple screen test it came back "funny." Not "haha" funny... the other kind. The scary kind. We were sent to a genetic counciler who told us that the most probable cause of the tripple screen results we got was that our child had trisomy-18, which means three copies of chromosomy 18 instead of two. Most babies with trisomy-18 don't live to see their first birthday. Those that do... anyway, it's bad. She set us up with an appointment for a high-resolution ultrasound at 10 am and if the baby was smaller than they expected, then they could do an amnio at noon and schedule the termination for 3 that afternoon.

I almost called her a Nazi to her face. My wife and I told her there was no way she was killing our child. If he lived a week, we'd have a week longer with him than otherwise. Sure enough, the high-resolution ultrasound came back with a very small baby for the last period date my wife gave. The stress this put my wife under caused her to develop preeclampsia. This further restricted our son's growth. When he was born, the doctor told me in no uncertain terms that our son had trisomy, that he would never learn to talk, that we would be lucky if he survived the week.

Two weeks later we got the genetic test results back: 46 XY, just like his daddy. (The Y chromosome was my fault... sorry.) The low birth weight and being a month premature caused him to need extra time to catch up, but at 14 months he's not as far behind as some other month early babies we know, and his physical theripists are all saying that by 3 years old the only way we'll know he was early is he'll still be a little small.

How many people would have listened to the gentic counciler? She was gong to run the amnio and have the termination the same day, but it takes two weeks to get the results of an amnio back! Two weeks later we would have found out the baby was perfectly healthy *if* they bothered to tell us! I find myself wondering how many people this has happened to, how many people have aborted perfectly healthy babies because someone in a trusted position assured them there was something terribly wrong. If abortion was illegal, that would never happen. Doctors couldn't suggest illegal procedures.

Answer 4

I think at first, there will be problems if abortion is made illegal. Black market abortions will take place. but I hope that with it made illegal except for those rare extreme cases, we teach that you have to take responsibility for your actions. I don't remember where I saw the stats, but it showed that life threatening, incest and rape were only a mere 1-2% of abortions preformed. This was, granted, years ago, but I doubt that the numbers skyrocketed. All it is now is a method of birth control

If we can't get it made illegal, than I want stronger laws. Like, if you are under the age of 18, your legal guardian has to be there with you. No bringing your neighbor or best friend's mom, your mom or dad has to be there with you. And the clinic has the right to call the house and confirm your appointment (in case the girl lied about her guardian, this will confirm it). And yes, I've seen girls do this. Bring the best friends mom so her mom won't know.

Answer 5

I believe it would create more problems. I don't believe that abortion is necessarily right, but I think every woman should have the right to choose. If this right is taken away women will go behind closed doors, back dark alleys... and only God knows what could happen. Women would be going to the slaughter house, disease, deformities... etc. There should be rules and regulations, but of course humans are only human and find ways around the system. Abortion will never be stopped. Sometimes it can be a good thing, but not to be looked lightly upon. *hard question, because everyone has a different view point and idea*

Answer 6

No I don't think it would stop abortions...in fact I think it would create more problems because people will find sleazy Drs to do abortions and many young girls will end up butchered. That's what was happening many, many years ago. There were unsterile clinics that would perform illegal abortions and there were many horror stories about these places. The only thing that bothers me is when people use abortion as a form of birth control. Girls who continue to get pregnant over and over and have multiple abortions. It seems like they'd figure out how they get pregnant at some point and use protection.

Answer 7

Roe vs Wade of today is not even the same as the Roe v Wade of the 70s

in the 70s states were barred from interfereing in the first trimester... today its legall extended...not even the same

today Planned parenthood is facing lawsuits relating to granting abortions to minors even in cases of statutory rape in CA and Ohio without notifying authorities or parents which was their legal obligation showing how corrupt the whole thing is

It may not stop the problem but it would be an improvement.

Answer 8

Will stop all abortions, no. But it will reduce them. It will cause many of the women involved to seek other solutions, such as adoption. Without abortions as an option, it will encourage people to think more about their sexual habits and morals and will reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. Avoiding them will become easier then terminating them, so people will make more effort to avoid.

But it is also the idea that as long as abortion is legal - as long as we are out there saying "it is OK to have a doctor slice up your baby and throw it away" - we have cheapen life, not just for the innocent unborn but for everyone.

Let's follow your logics. Outlawing abortions will not stop them. People will still do it, so make it legal.
Outlawing baby robbery has not stopped them. Therefore we should leaglize bank robbing.
Outlawing rape has not stopped them. Therefore we should legalize rape.
Outlawing computer hacking as not stopped them. Therefore we should legalize hacking.
There is a major flaw in that logics. I should not have to explain what it is...

Abortion is wrong. That is reason enough to outlaw it. Doing so what reduce abortions and save innocent lives. That is reason enough to do it.

Answer 9

The answer is in the numbers.

How many abortions were performed prior to Roe vs. Wade as opposed to after?

Another aspect is the morality, the conscience of the nation. Any nation that disrespects life, be it democratic or despotic, can expect no protection from its enemies by God.

Answer 10

Government has certain responsibility's.Protecting citizens from other citizens is one of them.Wouldn't you agree with that.Murder should be outlawed.Of course there are still murders.If you ever see a baby responding to its mothers voice and even her thoughts while its in the whom,it's disturbing to think some doctor can legally kill it.

It has always seemed strange to me that the people that are against the death penalty,(where a person has proved they are a threat to others,)is wrong,but are for killing baby's.