Legal questions for pro-lifers?

Question

If abortion is not only immoral but also is murder should be illegal (even where the fetis is not capable of living outside the womb), what should the penalites be? For the doctor? More to the point, for the woman? Jail time?

Also, what measures would you take to prevent a woman from having an abortion? If a woman says she will cross state lines (or leave the country) to have an abortion, do you prevent her from going? if a woman says she will get one somewhere, somehow, no matter what, do the police lock her up to prevent it?

Yes or now, why or why not? Please explain your answers.

Please try to stay on point and answer these tough questions.

Don't assume you know my views - look at my other questions today.

Yes or no. :)

Answer 1

I don't think this is just a question of stopping a woman from having an abortion, we need to start at the grass roots level and start teaching more morality in our homes and schools. Stop accepting the fact that 9 year old little girls should be allowed to dress like they are 25, quit playing up and idolizing girls and women who get pregnant before marriage, sleep around and display their bodies. Stop making it illegal for parents to discipline and punish their children. Instead of spending millions of dollars on music, movies, video games that glamorize drunkenness, drugs, prostitution, premarital sex spend that money on teaching our young people morality and respect for self and others. The question should be if we can try a person for double homicide for killing a woman who is pregnant and the baby dies too, then why is it okay for a woman who realizes that this tiny life inside her is going to be "in the way" of her lifestyle take it's life? Sadly this is not a black/white issue there are way to many gray variables. Provocative question, it will be interesting to see what other people think.

Answer 2

The biggest thing about abortion is the Roe vs. Wade decision and how it doesn't affect abortion nearly as much as people think. Most people think that if the government were to overturn the decision that abortion would become illegal in the USA. It wouldn't. All that would happen is that the governments of each state would be able to determine weather or not abortion would be legal in their state.

I believe in the right to life. I also believe in the death penalty. If an unborn baby is destroyed, in my opinion, an innocent life has just been terminated. In any other situation that constitutes murder. The unborn child has done nothing wrong and does not deserve to be either ripped apart, if it's an early stage abortion, or partially born and then have it's spine broken and it's nerve stem seperated, in a late term abortion.

If abortions were outlawed then the practice of having one would be just the same as murder. The woman and the dr. performing the procedure would both be charged with murder. Anybody else in the room or on the staff who knew of the procedure would be charged with crimes ranging from accessory to assistance.

Answer 3

If abortion is illegal and considered murder, then the doctor would be guilty of murder and tried as a murderer. Same for the woman. This would be a scenerio like when a wife wants to have her husband killed and consults a hitman.

If she wants to leave the country, then she should be free to do so. Charging anyone with 'Intent' to commit a crime is ludicrous.

However, what happens now if someone says, "I'm going to kill you." or "I'm going to kill my husband." ? Or if you're overheard saying, "I'm going to France to kill the bastard who seduced my wife."? What does law enforcement do? The first one is now considered terroristic threatening. The second would be conspiracy or some such and the person being told would be considered an accompliace. The last one, I'm not so sure about. Perhaps the law would say, "Let France sort it out."

Answer 4

Abortion should be illegal, like murder, and those involved in it should be tried exactly like anyone else who commits murder. This also means that if they murder a child in another country they should not get busted up in the U.S. but with the possibility of a wall being built on the border, I don't think many women would be able to go across the Mexican border. This leaves the Canadian or other international borders open, however, most women who have abortions are in the lower income brackets and probably could not afford to fly to another country to get an abortion.

Answer 5

I am pro-life but against legislating morality. I am also pro civil rights and am against the government intruding into my personal life concerning a medical decision between me and my doctor.

That having been said, the issue behind abortion should not be one of laws or morality, it is one of personal responsibility. Last I knew there was one way to get pregnant and that fact is pretty well documented. Likewise, the ability not to get pregnant is readily available and cheap.

I would not have an abortion, nor would I counsel another woman to get one, but there are some people who decide that it is their best course of action. That is not a decision I could make and still look at myself in the mirror, but I don't treat those who have had one like a pariah either. It is a personal decision between a woman and her doctor, The government has enough issues they can't properly deal with, legislating morality should not take precedence over the duties we elect our representatives to perform.

Answer 6

Don't get mad, but the enforcement side of this abortion debate has always been the more intriguing to me. You asked the very tough questions that I often do. You may even try this at your next dinner party. Okay, Andy (my pro-lifer), you won. Roe v. Wade is overturned and every state has outlawed abortion. I have but one question. Now what?

Historically, my mother said hey would lock up the women (in the south that meant black and poor) who performed the procedure (great scene in the 1867 In The Heat Of The Night about this). I doubt that would happen today since doctors perform the procedures and tend to be wealth and well lets be honest White and Asian

Great question though I will monitor

Answer 7

Well, 93 % of abortions is for birth control purposes only, so getting rid of that is a major step foward. I think if someone did have an abortion for birth control purposes, the woman should spend jail time and pay a fine and the doctor should lose his license and pay a fine, maybe jail time too. i dont think we should apply the death penalty though. This should be a legal battle, one that is to be redone due to the amount of science we have learn since Roe v. Wade.

Answer 8

I favor the death penalty for the doctors, as I favor the death penalty for all murderers. After all, they are the ones doing the actual killing.

If it were up to me, I would not prosecute the mothers at all. I understand that they can be emotionally disturbed and not thinking rationally. However, the doctor is not emotionally involved and should know better. This is assuming a doctor performs the abortion, if the mother tries it herself, then she should be prosecuted.

Answer 9

It never ceases to amaze me people that say "I'm Pro-Life and Pro-death penalty".

I believe abortion is wrong, I also think hoarding vast quantities of money at the expense of the poor is wrong. I don't think either should be illegal.

Answer 10

This is not directed at you just my point on the issue.

Until you walk in a persons shoes - who are you to decide?

A woman has the right to do whatever she wants with whats inside her body and chose what's best for herself.

If people were to look at that action in itself, why not outlaw everyone from smoking and drinking and killing themselves? They are only damaging what's inside themselves just as a woman who chooses no medical care or chooses abortion right?

I say, take care of yourself, stay out of other peoples business, and by leaving others alone you have more time to concentrate on bettering yourself! amen!