Would overturning Roe v. Wade have the effect that people who are Prolife expect it to?

Question

Personally, I'm Prolife, but I cannot help but wonder if making abortion illegal would increase the problem.

Answer 1

I'm with you, however overturning Roe V Wade would put more women in danger. They would have to resort to underground providers. Just think how many women died or became infertile due to some wacko with a hanger. Having abortion legal is saving life's despite what some pro-life fanatics may think. They say it ends a life, while making it illegal could end 2.

Answer 2

OK,

Lots of smoke, little fire here.

1st. Roe v. Wade is a Supreme Court decision. It is very bad law, not just from the abortion perspective but it is bad law from the legal perspective. It is a poorly reasoned decision working from the very thin "right to privacy" reasoning of Griswold v. Conn. If the USSC wanted to create a "right to privacy" they have one in the 4th Amendment; but instead of taking that route they did some very wierd thinking to get them the answer they wanted. Roe is not a well thought out or well reasoned decision, and it should be overturned for that reason alone.

2nd If it were overturned there would be no Federally Guaranteed Constitutional right to an abortion. It would go back to being an issue the STATE LEGISLATURES could decide. (State Legislators are VERY afraid of this happening.)

Were that to happen it would probably wind up being like gambling. Some states ban gambling on the one hand... then there is Las Vegas and Atlantic City on the other, and the rest of the States fall somewhere inbetween. Abortion would be the same. Some states would have no abortion at all, others would have Planned Parenthood clinics on the border open 24/7/365.

3rd, Despite the bilge the pro-abortion people spin, the abortion laws NEVER prosecuted the mother. The crime was not having the abortion, the crime was PERFORMING the abortion, or sometimes arranging for or paying for the abortion.

Simple reason for this. If you don't structure the law this way you would have to investigate every miscarrage and stillbirth as a possible murder. Cops don't have the time, resources, or the interest in doing that. So they put the abortionist into jail, not the pregnant girl.

So the people who get sent to jail are NOT the "pregnant 14 year old in Mississippi" but the guy who finances his three ex-wives and his new Porche by sucking pre-born babies brains out with a vaccum machine. HE goes to jail, not the pregnant 14 year old.

Lastly, overturning Roe would certianly cut down on the number of abortions. No law can ever stop anything. What laws do is make it more difficult to do particular things or get particular things. (That is why the gun controll laws don't work, and why you can still get heroin, cocane, and hash 30 years after the war on drugs started.) People would still have illegal abortions, the same way they have illegal meth labs and illegal prostitution and illegal gambling. There would just be less of them. Some people would travel from states where it would be hard to get an abortion to states where it was easy to get an abortion, just as people go to Vegas to play blackjack.

Still there would be fewer abortions overall, which means more live babies and fewer dead ones, and that would be a good thing. Also it would allow the different States to make the laws that the different States are comfortable with, and that would be a good thing. Also it would let the VOTERS, through their legislature, decide the issue, not the pressure groups in Washington and their lawyers, and that would be a VERY good thing.

It wouldn't eliminate the problem, but it would be a huge step in the right direction.

Answer 3

Abortion is not a concept included in the Constitution. Any duty, privilege or responsibility not expressly given to the Federal government in the Constitution automatically belongs to the States and the individual citizens.

If Roe vs Wade were overturned, the decision would be left up to popular votes on a state by state basis.

Answer 4

No...actually 72% of women who aborted indicated that were abortion illegal, they would not have gone that route.

Furthermore, the government is not at fault if a woman dies from having an abortion. Her choice--her responsibility. That's like a thief getting shot while robbing a house. And abortion is not a safe procedure, whether legal or illegal.

Interestingly enough, since Roe the number of out-of-wedlock births has skyrocketed.

Answer 5

If overturning Roe vs Wade saves only one life than it will be worth it. The countless murders we allow to go on in this country is deplorable. We (the US) are now continually rewarding reckless, immoral, immature, and irresponsible behavior by giving simple, easy solutions to hide or disguise the behavior. It is like someone running up a credit card bill and solves their stress of not being able to pay for it by running up another credit card. In this case, though, we are not talking material possessions we are talking about human life.

Answer 6

I think there's the danger that making it illegal will just mean more unwanted babies, so: more poverty, more crime, more child abuse, more suicide. Also, would you really want it illegal in situations where it's like rape by a family member, or something? Should someone really have to carry that with them? Also, it most likely means that, rather than no more abortions, people will perform them illegally in more dangerous conditions, as was done back in the day before it was a more acceptable practice.

Answer 7

It would more than likely cause more people to get abortions done illegally in unsafe locations. This would probably cause more mothers to die as well as their unborn babies. So overturning Roe v. Wade is actually anti-MomLife if you look at it that way.

Answer 8

Mississipi wants to make it a crime and throw you in jail for abortion.
I can imagine a pregnant 14 year old rape victim sitting in prison on that one.

Anyway, I consider myself 'Pro-life' to most extent, but I think outlawing abortion will create a terrible problem.

In a city in Russia they tried education versus abortion. They simply spent more energy and money on educating people on the options, like adoption. And they ended up closing several abortion clinics in the region.

Answer 9

Seeing that Row was built on a lie (she later recanted her story) and the Supreme Court has not addressed the issue since, I don't think it ever will be. But, I can't help but believe that making it illegal would deter some women from killing their babies.

Answer 10

With any luck, it'll force the Legislature to address the issue as they SHOULD HAVE 33 done years ago. But it almost certainly will not end up the way Pro-lifers would prefer. Laws seldom end up making anyone happy.