If abortion was outlawed, would it stop . . . .?

Question

. . . . women from having abortions?

. . . . people from performing abortions?

. . . . men from insisting their women get abortions?

If it did, what would we do with the millions of babies being brought into homes that are potentially unloving homes?

If it didn't, what would we do with the number of criminals having, performing, or requesting abortions?

(Go with me on this "what if" ride, will you?)

I ask in R&S because I can.

guppy, sweetie, your tax dollars didn't pay for my abortion. my $600 did.

oops, did i say too much? guess i'll have to accept that i'm a murderer now.

Thanks, Laptop. Let's just say I got fed up. :)

Answer 1

No. Abortion was outlawed and it was practiced in back rooms using coat hangers and other inappropriate instruments in less than sterile environments.

Women were sill having abortions.

People were still performing abortions.

Any man who would insist on his woman obtaining an abortion may be a "man" but is not a "father."

So many neglected, abandoned, and unloved would continue to be born because too many people like the benefits of an act without assuming the responsibilities associated thereto whereby the act of procreation is associated with a "good feeling" without regard for the resulting pregnancy.

Though criminal abortion is a lesser consideration when legal abortion is available; any medical procedure performed by an unqualified individual should be dealt with harshly given the propensity for morbid consequences.

Having interacted with women who have suffered criminal abortion and are living with the results of that decision it is a sad commentary on society that the possibility for criminal abortion remains.

Answer 2

Since abortion is probably the single GREATEST, and possibly even the most-accessed, remedy for an unwanted medical condition that the world has ever known -- no -- it most assuredly wouldn't stop. Worldwide, it enables a full BILLION (with a "B") girls and women over any given recent 18-year-long period to put their lives back on thrack, and have their full ranges of future opportunities RESTORED to them, to PRE-ill-timed-pregnancy levels.

Assuming you're talking about a possible fall of the "Roe vs Wade" emancipation of women in America, I think there would be a VERY disruptive short period of imposing immense hardship upon poorer women living in "slave" states being unable to afford to go to free states for an abortion -- but that would QUICKLY be ended by passage of a "Freedom of Choice Amendment" to the US Constitution... to prevent America from having a new Civil War. Sensible PRO-Choice people outnumber bigoted ANTI-Choice louts in America by a ratio of at least 2-to-1. Thankfully!!

Answer 3

It wouldn't stop anything it would simply resort to the social class based medical care that it had been prior to Roe v Wade.
The rich women would fly to countries where abortion was legal and have a safe medical procedure performed.
The not-so- rich women would either have a child they didn't want -for whatever reason- or they would literally place their lives in the hands of an amateur abortionist and pray for the best.
I personally find it appalling that many of the well meaning anti-abortion folks don't understand one of life's most elemental relationships :
For single poor women; Children=Poverty
An increase in the amount of children results in an increase in the level of poverty and a decrease in the overall quality of life for the family involved.

Answer 4

Banning abortion will not stop all abortions from happening. I remember the pre Roe vs. Wade time and woman were being butchered in back alley abortion rooms on a regular basis. Many times they would die from infection or bleeding.

However, abortion is still morally wrong in my opinion and the fact that our government has seen fit to legalize it is an affront to the value of life. I don't buy into the concept that women deserve to have an abortion if they choose because it is "their" body. From the moment of conception, it is no longer just "her" body but also that of an unborn human being. The right of a woman not to have a child is fine...but that right is hers prior to her becoming pregnant. I am all for preventing pregnancies but once the event has occurred, people need to take responsibility for their own actions and accept the consequences. No one said that they had to have sex (except in cases of rape etc.) and no one said they had to have unprotected sex. It was their choice....and in my opinion, they made the choice. Why should the life of an innocent be taken away simply because someone else made a bad choice. Do we excuse a drunk driver when the choice he made to get behind the wheel results in the death of another? No, they go to jail.

Answer 5

Making abortion unlawful does not give up all abortions, yet could do away with maximum of them. As of stunning now ninety seven% are for persuade motives. some thing needs to be executed because of fact the abortion value is going bigger and better each and each 12 months. people could then be forced to circulate by way of the adoption technique in the event that they did not choose their infant. The question to you is what could we do approximately somebody that has an unlawful abortion. the respond is easy, the mummy could be charged with first degree homicide and then everybody who performed the execution of the harmless infant could be charged with assorry to homicide. the only difficulty could stay is people who say their raped or had intercourse with a kin member. If their raped then they could choose a police record and the different evidence that they've been certainly raped. in the event that they had incest they might experience your dna with the different kin member and in the event that they have been a experience then they might get their abortion. If shall we shrink down abortions 50% thats 0.5 a million toddlers, do not you think of that it rather is going to be worth it. Its purely like homicide, its unlawful, yet yet people do not care. making a sparkling regulation could be a marvelous commence. some thing needs to be executed to guard those toddlers from being exucuted.

Answer 6

I hope i dont understand you well

" If it didn't, what would we do with the number of criminals having, performing, or requesting abortions "

Do you mean that if abortion is not outlawed you will still call people have/perform/request abortions are criminals ?

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Answer 7

No, it didn't before it was legalized so it wouldn't if it once again became illegal. If These Walls Could Talk is a good movie that shows that.

Well, I think that child protective services would become overwhelmed - actually let me say more overwhelmed than they already are. I also think you'd see more of a re-occurrence of orphanages which were awful places for a child to grow up.

To your third question.. well I'm sure most would say throw them in jails - which are already over-crowded in most states and throw them in with the worst society has to offer. Yeah that should really 'rehabilitate' them.

Answer 8

It would cut down on the number, but some would be done illegally. The babies would be put up for adoption or placed into foster care. Babies are always looked after. The criminals would go where all criminals go. State prison.

Answer 9

if abortion were outlawed it would increase the number of babies being born and left in things like sewers or alleyways, if a girl knows she's pregnant and knows she doesn't want the baby and no abortions are available she'll just leave it somewhere...i think thats more morbid than getting it done medically and professionally. abortions need to stay legal.

Answer 10

Nah, I don't think it would stop people. Abortions were illegal in previous centuries, yet women still had them.

And guppy, who said your tax dollars are paying for them, unless you live in the UK or Canada, where they have the socialised health care. If you're in the states, isn't it usually the insurance companies that pay for them.. and you don't pay taxes to them, do you?