right now, abortion is legal, but it hasnt been legal forever. if you were to have your way, criminalizing abortion once more, what do you think the ramifications would be? remember that “back street” abortions were quite abundant back in the day, and that not only could they result in a botched abortion where the baby survived, but was badly harmed, but that the mothers were often severely injured, or even died due to them. knowing that something being illegal doesnt stop it from happening, are you okay with the harm these women and babies would come to if abortion was outlawed once again?
Do you know who Mary Ann Warren is?
Well, she is a pro-choice philosopher, ardent feminist, and downright intelligent woman. She says,
…the fact that restricting access to abortion has tragic side effects does not, in itself, show that the restrictions are unjustified, since murder is wrong regardless of the consequences of prohibiting it…
So, there you go.
But I would like to take a moment an address the infamous “back alley abortion” nonsense. I call it nonsense because that’s precisely what it is.
First of all, do you know who Dr. Bernard Nathalson is?
Well, he is the co-founder of NARAL (a pro-choice organization) and said this of the “back alley abortion” numbers his organization reported:
How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In N.A.R.A.L. we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always “5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year.” **I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. **But in the “morality” of the revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics. The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason which had to be done was permissible.
The whole “back alley abortion” argument, as well as the two infamous rape and incest arguments, are little more than emotional screens the pro-abortion crowd puts up to help keep the billion dollar industry rolling.
P.S. And please do not start pasting Guttmacher Institute links. Alan Guttmacher is the former head of Planned Parenthood, and his “institute” is funded by Planned Parenthood. As a writer for NRTL, I’m well aware of what they report on this issue, and I can not only prove their conclusion false, but I can provide you detailed examples of their penchant for dishonesty.
References:
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See Daniel Callahan, Abortion: Law, Choice, and Morality (New York: Macmillan, 1970), pp. 132-136; and Stephen Krason, Abortion: Politics, Morality, and the Constitution (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984), pp. 301-310. *