How would the people who advocate pro-life policies prevent abortion?

Question

I'm old enough to remember young girls having to resort to the "back ally" or a European holiday. I suspect that the pro-life advocates are promoting unenforcible laws, unless they are planning to resort to police state tactics. In my opinion, the cause of most abortions are of two kinds. Fear of public censure i.e. loss of status and loss of income i.e not enough to support quality of life. Unless the pro-life advocates are willing to deal with cause and effect, their efforts will be fruitless as well as destructive.

Answer 1

I think the laws would be very enforceable since licensed medical doctors would refuse to perform abortions. Desperate girls and women would resort to any coathanger -- type measure, and some would die while others would become infertile from infections. Some women would travel to obtain a legal and safe abortion, but this option would not be available to many poor women and two teens who were afraid to tell their parents. There would be more infanticide would be more infanticide -- babies found in the trash, and things like that. There would be a rise in child abuse because women who did not want these babies would be forced to bear them and to raise them.

Answer 2

I don't know that I would prevent abortion, but certainly late term and partial birth abortion which are both ghastly. 9 months is plenty of time to decide if a person wants a baby. No need to wait until the baby is viable and then kill it. It's gruesome.

I think a partial answer is free birth control to anyone who wants it, no judgments, no questions (other than medical). Back alley abortions are not something our country wants to go back to. This issue needs a level-headed practical solution-oriented approach. There is no perfect answer that will satisfy everyone, so I think one that does the most good and the least damage is called for.

Answer 3

I suppose the same way we prevent bank robberies, murder, drunk driving, dealing drugs, child molestation etc. We make it illegal. We cannot prevent every single one but it sure reduces the number of instances. It is called the rule of law not "police state tactics".

Besides, before Roe V. Wade this was entirely a state issue. If Roe v. Wade were overturned (as it should be since it was bad law and set a dangerous precedent) abortions would return to state control.

Unless the anti-abortion people could get all fifty states to ban the procedure, which is not very likely, they would still be obtainable. One can assume most blue states would still permit the practice and some of the red might only restrict it that would be preferable to shoving it down everyones throat.

BTW- The cause is reckless behavior and the effect is a dead baby.

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Answer 4

Outside of medical necessity abortion should be stopped.
A doctor can not assist in suicide, and that can be proven if they do. So why can't a restriction on birth control abortions work?
As a nurse, there are medical reasons to terminate pregnancy to save the life of the mother. The damage is done to the pregnancy and nature wreaked havoc on her body, save her life. She may have children at home to care for or go on to have more children.
Someone who isn't smart enough to either not have sex or not use some of the birth control options out there, well take your responsibility.

Answer 5

"Fear of public censure i.e. loss of status and loss of income i.e not enough to support quality of life"

So, in a word, 'convenience'. Yeah, that's sufficient justification to draw and quarter a human being inside your womb. That's what it is, you know. And all in the name of avoiding public censure. Boy, I'm convinced.

Still, in response to your real question the answer is, we can't. While I despise abortion to my very core and believe those who seek it to be nothing more than self interested and self serving, we cannot stop it. The old saying, "In a moral society laws are unnecessary. In an immoral society laws are useless." Comes to mind. I would much rather we as a society EVOLVE and start advocating the horrors of abortion and publicly censuring those who seek them.

Abortion is literally tantamount to practices in the dark ages. You want to be 'progressive'? Help society EVOLVE beyond this barbarous practice into one that values human life and condemns those who would so brutally end it for the sake of mere convenience.

Answer 6

Most likely, by lobbying and trying to get laws instituted which tell us all how to live. Unfotunately, we as Americans have let these types of bastards take control of our govt and rule our lives.

If they wanted to do something productive, they would try to restore families and family values, and get some of these people out here who have no business having children to keep their legs closed and/or use birth control. But instead, they lobby for no abortions in favor of children being raised in orphanages with no family whatsoever. Great choice! NOT!

Too many people are too busy tryin to tell everyone else how to live.....

Answer 7

1-bring back chastity belts until your married

2-mandate that every girl be a lesbian until she's married or ready to have children
3-give an aspirin to every girl on her 12th birthday
she then has to keep the aspirin between her knees at all times when a boy is around
4-parents could just teach their kids self respect.
but I think the other 3 choices are more likely to happen first.

Answer 8

I have an idea why not refrain from having sex until you are old enough to accept the responsibility of a child or better yet use birth control and condoms that way you won't get pregnant and you also avoid std's as well as not needing an abortion...Abortion wouldn't be so bad if it were only used in cases of Rape, Incest or a danger to the Mother's life, problem is girls/young women use it as birth control and that is not what it was intended to be....

Answer 9

Well you see, they don't care how many people die needlessly because of that.

Yes, despite all their handwringing about the poor fetuses, what matters to these people is not that innocent people might die, but that their own ideas of right and wrong must be the law of the land.

As long as they can convince themselves that these deaths are somebody else's fault, for not living up to their own personal moral standards, they will happily ignore them. They'll even celebrate them.

Answer 10

Not as destructive as the willy-nilly killing of infants that goes on unchecked today...