Wouldn't abortion exist even if illegal?

Question

It existed before and will exist forever regardless of legislation!

Answer 1

Thirty-four years ago this month the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade, significantly expanding the ability of women across the country to decide when and whether to become a parent. The decision, while immensely important, was only one step in this country’s journey to true reproductive freedom. Three decades later, we still have a long way to go. The world we want includes access to safe and legal abortion care, secures our right to have children when we are ready, and supports programs that foster healthy families and healthy lives for all.

The decision when and whether to become a parent is one of the most private a person can make and one that has a profound affect on all aspects of our lives. To participate fully in society, we must be free to answer for ourselves whether we are ready and capable of being parents. To achieve this world, we must continue to strive for reproductive freedom for everyone.

In the world we want, women, men, and families have the support they need to maintain healthy lives, healthy pregnancies, and healthy families. Reproductive health care is basic health care. Women have the support they need if they want to have children, including prenatal care and health care for their newborns. Moreover, lesbian, gay, and single parents are supported in their efforts to adopt or bear children. All parents – regardless of sexuality, income, ethnicity, or immigration status – are equipped with the means to care for and educate their children and provide for their families. And the environment in which we live and work is safe for our health and families. In the world we want, people are given the tools and education they need to build and maintain healthy lives.

In the world we want, all women have meaningful access to birth control and are able to obtain an abortion if and when they need one. Contraception and abortion are part of basic health care. Unfortunately, in the world we live, we see a growing disparity between the ability of rich and poor women to prevent unintended pregnancies and obtain abortion care. According to a recent report by the Guttmacher Institute, in 2002, 16.8 million women needed publicly funded contraceptive care and yet only 6.7 million received such services. Moreover, for the past 30 years, nearly as long as the right to abortion has existed in this country, Medicaid has denied, with few exceptions, poor women abortion coverage in its otherwise comprehensive health care program for low-income Americans. The result: women already struggling with scant resources are not given the support they need to prevent unintended pregnancies and are forced to continue a pregnancy against their judgment about what is best for them, their health, or their families. In the world we want, this two-tiered health care system vanishes, access to health care becomes universal, and funding for birth control keeps pace with the need.

In the world we want, the government puts resources into programs that offer real information for real lives. Government supported sexuality education gives people the information they need to make healthy decisions when it comes to sex, relationships, and family planning. It encourages teens to abstain from sex but also gives teens who become sexually active the know-how to protect themselves from sexually transmitted diseases and prevent unintended pregnancy. As a study just published in Public Health Reports makes clear, engaging in sex before marriage is the cultural norm and has been for decades. Federally funded abstinence-only-until-marriage programs ignore this fact. They fail to give teens information to make healthy decisions about sex, including how to protect themselves if they are sexually active. That the federal government has supported this charade to the tune of more than one billion dollars over the past decade is foolhardy at best.

Answer 2

YES!!!! Abortion has existed since the first unwanted pregnancy and will continue to exist whether or not it is legal. The question of Roe v Wade is whether or not these women deserve medical care or whether they should be forced up the back alley and have coat hangers and knives used on them instead. I use those two examples because my father, who was a police officer for 26 years before he retired in 1976 to give you an idea of when this happened, was forced to transport two girls who had these kinds of horrific procedures used on them when medical care was illegal in abortions. That's why at 79, HE is pro-choice. He doesn't believe any female should have to go through what he saw those two go through.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Yes it would. The legislation on abortion was and is a law for the mother, not the innocent life that didn't ask to be here. Before legislation, the women who were irresponsible and got pregnant, sometimes lost their life right along with the babies at the end of a coat hanger. It sounds horrible I know, but so does delivering the head of a late term baby, stabbing it at the base of the skull, pulling the brain out, then delivering the rest of the baby and throwing it into a garbage can.

Answer 5

There will always be abortions and they are easier and quicker to get nowdays. the problem is that it's so easy that a girl is pushed into it because it is not convenient. Some women use abortion as birth control and the state (your tax dollars) pays for the majority of them. We have been told that it's not a baby, it's just tissue, in order to sanitize the killing. If a person can convince herself that it's not murder then it is easier to do the deed. It is a billion dollar business. People are getting filthy rich doing them and the victims are usually the poor pregnant girl who didnt realize how hard it would be emotionally and sometimes even physically They never mention the grief and sadness after you lose a baby. They never mention the complications that can and do happen every day. Some girls can't have babies ever again. It comes down to is it a life or not. I believe it is.

Answer 6

Here is how it worked before Roe v. Wade - if you had money and were well connected you could be admitted to hospital and diagnosed with something that required a "d & c" which would, unfortunately and tragically of course, result in the miscarriage of your fetus.
If you were poor you went to an illegal practitioner and ran a big risk of dying of hemorrhage or infection.
Or you could have the baby and be shamed - back then pregnant girls, married or not, were kicked out of high school; women who had babies out of wedlock were considered unworthy, sluts, you name it; or you could put it up for adoption, never see it again, and the baby would never know his or her birth parent or its genetic heritage, those records were sealed.
Still want to go back there?

Answer 7

Yes, and many women died because of the illegal abortions and the conditions in which they were performed. But on the other hand, women just had the baby too. Back then it was shameful to be pregnant out of wedlock. Now it seems like its a badge of honor.

Answer 8

yes,yes,yes but people will never stop the debate and they won't teach there kids about safe sex well some do but i agree with you 100% it's gonna happen regardless of it being illegal, just like alchol in the prohabition, and street drugs now it will make it more expensive and incredably dangerous and than we'll have to spend billions on the "war on abortion" just like the war on drugs ,not to mention the fact that the government should have no say in what we as women do with our bodies

Answer 9

yes it would still exist, however, if it were illegal, the practice of abortion would become unsafe for all parties involved. If it were illegal the procedure would probably be performed in a unsterile environment with improper tools like wire coat hangers.

Answer 10

It existed for years before Roe vs. Wade in the back alleys and, if you had the money, in hospitals and clinics. Now while I am against abortion with the normal exceptions, at least this makes the procedures safe.

Answer 11

Yes, and the frightening aspect is you will have a lot of women and young girls going to the back alley hacks performing cut-rate abortions under improper conditions causing massive infection, bleeding and sterility so needlessly.