2007-10-23 23:54:30 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Yes i would, and so would alot of other girls!
Back street abortionists used to be common and they used to butcher young girls and they would often become infected.
This is one of the reasons they would not make it illegal again.
2007-10-24 00:29:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
In the days when there was a huge stigma about having an illegitimate child and abortion was illegal, there were plenty of women who went to backstreet abortionists with terrible consequences. Lots died or were butchered by accident and later unable to have children. Properly trained doctors weren't allowed to do abortions because it was against the Law so a desperate woman just had to pay loads of cash for a secret abortion from mostly unqualified people and took her chances with knitting needles or coathangers. Yeh, gruesome. People today don't understand quite how bad it all was. My mother can remember when she was young (before the 1920s) a girl of 15 drowning herself in the Thames because she'd got pregnant and didn't have access to someone who'd abort her and couldn't tell her family. I know of a girl in the 1960s who was thrown out of her home in disgrace because she got pregnant. (Boys didn't get thrown on the streets because they weren't carrying the 'evidence'.) Again, abortion was still illegal then - but it was the social stigma that was the real killer keeping it all underground. Unfortunately, it's a bit too easy nowadays to get an abortion and seems to be used as a form of contraception which is wrong. To answer your question, yes, I would have broken the law in those days because I'd have had no other recourse. Nowadays, no I wouldn't as there's no need. I'd be able to either take the morning after pill or alternatively happily parade my illegitimate baby.
2007-10-24 00:22:43 · answer #2 · answered by chris n 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes
2007-10-24 09:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by Dee L 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and its ashame if it ever became illegal because back before it was legal a lot of women lost their lives having abortions done in unsanitary mannors. The government needs to keep their noses out of peoples personal choices!
2007-10-24 00:12:18 · answer #4 · answered by Lori M 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is it right to break an unjust law? Yes, and although there have to be points of comprimise, sometimes it has to be done. As a man, I would probably kill myself if I found I was pregnant though. The shame, the shame of it all...
2007-10-24 05:08:54 · answer #5 · answered by second only to trollalalala 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lots of women did before the 1967 Act came in. This is why we need to keep terminations legal - back street procedures will lead to infections and more women being injured or dying.
Yes, I would.
2007-10-24 00:10:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-10-23 23:58:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
MTP is legal in the cases when it may affect the health of the mother,the child may be having serious health or disability problems,rape etc.
2007-10-24 00:02:46 · answer #8 · answered by leowin1948 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
What like women did before abortion was legalised?
Of course I would!
2007-10-24 00:49:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-10-26 10:51:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋