making abortion illegal will help to reduce abortions?

Question

What do you think is that true? if Not what is the best solution for stop abortions? and give me proofs that your solution is the best?

Answer 1

Show me some examples where legislating morality has actually WORKED. History is full of such attempts, but unless the vast majority of the population is clearly behind the legislation then it is ultimately doomed to failure (Prohibition immediately comes to mind, but some communities have tried to ban dancing on Sundays . . .) Check the Gallup Polls - a clear (albeit not overwhelming) majority of the U.S. population does NOT favor making abortions illegal. 'Nuff said.

Answer 2

Yes, ofcourse outlawing abortion will limit the number of abortions...the problem will be how much? The key is that some women will still seek an abortion because of certain reasons and they will have to go back door ways to obtain them. A good movie to see is If these walls could talk. In a scene Demi Moore gets an abortion on her kitchen table by some random guy she got a contact for. She ended up bleeding to death because he didn't know what he was doing. This will happen after an abortion ban.

Now as for solution I don't think there is a viable one or it would have been posed by now. Obviously abortions for rape victims or women whom the pregnancy will kill will not be outlawed but this is a good question.

Answer 3

Women had abortions before it was legal; they will do the same if a law made it illegal again. However, it might make more women think twice before killing their child.
The law was written with riders attached regarding women's health. Since the law cannot be separated into parts, it will never be rescinded. Not all laws are sensible, just because it hides under the guise of legal doesn't mean its right or good.
The only way to stop the killing is to change hearts; which would take a miracle of magnitude proportions.

Answer 4

There is no best solution for this. It is a womans right to have it done period. And also to say that it wouldn't cause more deaths because of the numbers before it was legal is stupid. Woman were different back then hell the whole world was different back then. We didn't have young girls pregnant and we didn't have other ways around it. Plain and simple to make it illegal would be just as bad in your eyes as doing it we would still be killing someone. Unfortunately there is no rights to the man in the situation which I feel is wrong. I agree we need to teach more than just abstinence in school and mother need to open their eyes and inform their kids as well to practice safe sex and that there are other things that can be done. Adoption is one of the many things that can be done.

Answer 5

All you have to do is go back to before Roe v Wade, it reduced the amount of women dying and left sterile from illegal abortions, as with anything illegal, hard statistics are difficult to find, but its worth noting that at that time all the doctors were behind decriminalizing abortion because they were sickened by the cases they saw in the emergency rooms of desperate women who had aborted themselves with coat hangers and knitting needles and had septic uteri that left them needing emergency hysterectomies, or pelvic infections that rendered them sterile. Some of these women were quite young, others were newly married all of them preventable by sterile surrounding and trained personnel.
At that time, several cases were around besides Roe v Wade, one stands out in my mind was Sherri Finkbine she needed an abortion and had one in Sweden when she couldn't get one here, she confirmed what many had know, if you had the money you could have it done safely, but if you were poor, you took your chances with whomever the local abortionist was.
There is no solution to abortion short of flawless birth control and a third party to make sure the person it works on takes it.
But it has always been around. Most people base their opposition to it on religious grounds, but not all religions see a fetus as a the same as a full grown baby and others feel its not 'real' until a specific time frame, three months or more, this makes legalizing an abortion dependent on age of the fetus more a religious issue than a medical one.
If you believe in a zygots right to life, thats fine, don't have an abortion, no one should be forced for any reason to have one, but its a womans decision as to whether or not to carry to term, its hers because its been proven that she will do it herself at the risk of great medically unnecessary harm. Is that really what we want to go back to?

Answer 6

Years ago when it was illegal, very few young women got pregnant before marriage. Young women abstained from sex until marriage. If they didn't, they made sure to use protection to protect their family from disgrace. Yes, disgrace. It was shameful for a young girl to be promiscuous.
Those who went in backrooms for abortions were often married women who didn't want children or a young girl forced to have an abortion to save her family's name. Millions of babies were not aborted back then. Abortion was not used a birth control back then. Teenagers were not having sex at 13 or 10 back then. The church taught that God watched everything we did and we feared the Lord.

Answer 7

The evidence shows that abortions will still occur even if it is illegal. There will be always be some women choosing abortion as an option. If anti-abortion laws are essentially about saving lives then the outcome is very different when both women and unborn babies die at the hands of backroom quacks.

Answer 8

Yes, there is no reason to doubt that heavy penalties for abortion would reduce it's use. Look at it this way, did legalizing it lead to an increase? Yes. All of these people who claim that thousands of women would die from "back-alley" abortions are full of it. Look at the pre- legalization statistics. There was something like 1-2 deaths a year from botched abortions. It beats the over 1 million babies killed each year from the legal abortions.

Answer 9

Yes, it will, because over 70% of women who aborted said that were it illegal they wouldn't have done it.

If a woman dies while having an abortion (legal or not), that is her fault--with choice comes responsibility. Abortion has NEVER been a safe procedure, legal or not. "Back alley" simply referred to going into the door of a clinic through a door off the back alley--all Roe did was bring the door from the back alley to the front parlor.

If theft were legalized, count on shoplifting to increase. Most people won't do something if it's illegal.

Answer 10

To reduce the amount of abortions performed...
Stop teaching abstinence only and start teaching safe sex practices in schools and Encourage women to consider alternatives to abortions



And then mind your own buisness as far as anothers health is concerned