If abortion is made illegal, how will that stop illegal abortions?

Question

People, think through the ramifications of a decision to overturn Roe V Wade. Almost every Christian will agree that abortion should not be used as a form of birth control and that is what we want to stop.

But let's say Roe V Wade is overturned, there are doctors who will still agree to perform abortions under the table and in most cases it will be performed by the "back alley" doctors and in unsterile conditions. Sure we can close them down, but that's like saying more police protection will stop drug dealers. Where there is demand there will be a supply to meet that demand.

So, how will making a law really STOP abortions?

Answer 1

Passing laws never eliminates the activity they criminalize, but passing those laws make shallow people feel good about themselves and gain politicians more votes. And you don't need a physician to obtain an abortion at all. There are readily-available herbs that will induce an abortion and all one has to do is know which ones and how to use them.

Answer 2

If abortions are made illegal will people stop having abortions? If murder is made illegal, will people stop murdering? Of course not, but that doesn't mean we, as a society, should allow it to remain legal. Whither abortion should remain legal, hinges on one issue and on issue only and that is when we can consider the fetus a human being. It hinges on when the fetus becomes aware and can feel pain. I am pro choice, until a point. If a woman wants an abortion, she can do it within the first couple weeks when the fetus is still a lumpy mass of cells, that doesn't even begin to resemble a human being. However, the moment that fetus becomes aware and can feel pain, abortion should be made illegal from there on out. At this point it becomes murder, period and the woman loses her choice, which she should have exercised much earlier in her pregnancy. There is absolutely no excuse for waiting, until your third trimester rolls around to have an abortion and those people should be treated like the murderers they are.

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

Laws do not, of course, stop criminals from committing crimes. But they do authorize the police to hunt them down, and they authorize the government to spend money hiring police to do the hunting.

Illegal abortions are dangerous in more than one way. First, most of the reputable doctors will stop performing them, lest they lose their licenses to practice medicine. That means that a much greater percentage of the performers of illegal abortions will be incompetents who are as likely to kill one of the criminal offenders during the course of the crime. Second, of course, the police might catch the offenders and put them in prison.

Fear of the consequences, then, will prevent a good many abortions. Not all of them will be prevented, but most of them will be. The more intelligent women will "think it over" and decide that abortion isn't worth the risk. The stupider women will take the risk and, maybe, die. Even if a stupid woman's abortion is successful and she evades police detection, her baby, who would have inherited stupidity from her, will never trouble his mental superiors with pleas for alms.

So even though an abortion ban will not be 100% effective in preventing abortion, it will certainly have a positive eugenic effect on the race.

I would approve of an abortion ban in any White country. In fact, I'd be in favor of limiting the restriction to White people while letting the other races have just as many abortions as they wished. Although that may sound to you like racism against Whites, it isn't. Quite the contrary.

Answer 5

It won't make them stop. That's why I think the whole Pro-Life thing is rather silly. If you were to look at the #'s when it was illegal, you'll find there were still just as many abortions, performed by doctors & midwives (yes, we still have midwives), only that in some areas, the death toll was actually a little higher... because the mothers were dying as well. But of course, most Pro-Lifers don't give a crap about the mothers.........

Answer 6

I am in favor a person's right to chose. But if Roe versus Wade is overturned, abortion will still go on just as it did before Roe versus Wade was enacted. You cannot stop an activity just because you enact a law.

Answer 7

Personal opinion presently on the question's point. Making 'abortions' illegal, will not eliminate them from occurring in this country presently. It will reduce them from occurring in this country presently.
I can see an 'abortion' in only one case presently. That case is where a situation exist where the person, for discussion purposes a doctor, can save the life of one person, but not both; so it is a choice between an innocent mother(such as a high risk pregnancy developed into life or death) or an innocent unborn child. In such cases, legally, the doctor should not be liable for either soul in either case.
May you receive a pleasant surprise today, Glory to God.
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Answer 8

Doctors won't jeaprodize their careers by performing illegal abortions under those conditions.

Women seeking illegal abortions are extremely rare, and the exception should never be the argument to uphold the rule.

The law is intended to protect the rights of the unborn baby. The right to exist.
This fundamental right must be upheld for it is the foundation of all rights.

People get shot every day and its agaisnt the law so why doesn't the law help those who get shot?

Answer 9

Making abortion illegal will just do the opposite of what pro-lifers want. Not only will abortions still continue in back alley ways, but the mother is in danger of dying because of bad conditions.

Answer 10

Laws against murder, theft, certain gun use, etc. obviously do not get rid of the illegal activity, though the laws and their penalties I'm sure serve as a deterrant for many. What is your point? Are you saying that we should have no laws against anything because some people will still engage in the illegal activity? Congratulations, you're an anarchist!