Same things that happened before 1973.
I’d have to disagree. Heard of Pandora’s Box? Once it’s opened, you can’t put it back…
Also…I totally forgot about Roe VS Wade. So lets pretend that’s gone too
Abortion rates would definitely go down, but there would certainly be underground clinics where some people go to get abortions
That’s the first thing that I thought of. There’d be underground clinics, being very unsafe for both the mother, and (Obviously) the fetus, due too…well, it being black-market.
Wouldn’t people then just be able to leave the country to have an abortion to have one in another country? This is what Pro-choicers are saying there, that they’re having it done anyways. Would there be increased rates of emigration?
Punishments? For doctors who perform an abortion or attempt to: perhaps fines, revoking of medical license, imprisonment, etc.
Would you have a Grandfather clause in effect, where all people who had preformed an abortion before the law took effect can’t get charged? Also, overturning Roe Vs. Wade would be recognizing that it IS, in essence, murder. So would they be charged with murder, or would it be something else?
With the girls, that’s another problem that I had thought of. Having mothers in jail when they have their kids (This would be an attempted abortion, of course) would be not good for the child, and put a strain on the jail system.
In terms of education to discourage abortion (something that can and should be done now, even though it’s legal), adoption should be a strongly promoted in a variety of ways. In the real world, I think there should be incentives to offer a baby up for adoption and heavy fines and costs for people who opt for abortion. Since it’s legal, let’s make it extremely undesirable if not nearly impossible to go for.
That’s actually quite more reasonable then just outright banning it, personally. My stance (And this IS getting away from what I wanted the thread to be about), is that I wouldn’t want people I know to have an abortion, but IF they jump through the hoops, that don’t exist I don’t think, psychiatrists, other options, the works…and they still want to have it, then they should be allowed too.
Plus, with much less abortions, there would be more children up for adoption. That’d probably put a large strain on what I understand to be a already bending system.
I’ve thought about this too, at times. Especially since there are contraceptives on the market that cause micro-abortions, and the issue of in-vitro fertilization, surrogate pregnancy, and all kinds of things.
I too still want to see Roe v. Wade overturned, but I have wondered about the “how” of enforcing new laws especially since time and technology have brought us to such a different place in society than we were in 1973.
Also wonder if it would spark some riots or something – I know we can’t be afraid to do it because of that, but it’s still a sobering prospect.
Yes, it probably would cause a landslide effect, and would anger a lot of people. Plus, with new technology, you could just hope on a jet, fly somewhere, get an abortion, then come back, and not be in trouble.
Riots would happen too. In a country that’s so splintered right down the middle ideologically wise, like the US, it would probably be worse then the tea party movement. I do agree though-I had said that this is not a reason for keeping abortion in place.
I think it has to be more global than just making abortion illegal, although that would be a welcome change. The current sexualization of society leads people to use birth control as a means to enjoy sex outside of marriage without consequences, or at least it is promoted as being without consequences. STDS and unplanned pregnancies are the consequences that we all know so well, but there are wide-ranging consequences that go unseen, such as emotional and psychological changes from having sex as a teenager. This is not speculative, there is research on the brain that shows the deep bonding mechanisms that happen when people are sexual. The two becoming one is meant for ONE relationship, with God in a covenant, and having many or even several sexual partners wounds us in ways most of us will probably never even know, having known nothing else. I want people to re-discover the 10 commandments and how God wanted us to enjoy sex - within a marriage, open to conception.
Well, I can attest that there are SOME teenagers that aren’t like that. But that’d be a lot of things that would have to go…and not a lot of people would want them to go. They, and I, would see it as a massive step back in society, and such.
I don’t like to speculate too much. We have a very long way to go before anything changes, and some days, I think the road is too long…But I just keep praying for the day when we can say -0- babies died today from abortion!!!
I read a book that was like that, kind of. It talked of a society where nobody died, and was run by a giant supercomputer that was basically the ultimate big brother. I doubt there will ever be a day with 0 abortions.
Maybe if a girl knew she could NOT get a legal or safe abortion, more would actually choose NOT to have sex outside of marriage? Back when it was shameful to admit that you had gotten pregnant, girls and boys were more likely to try and stop before sex happened.
Or, it could go the other way, with there being a LARGE increase of birth control, sterilization, and such, to prevent that.
I’m sorry if I sound rude or anything…I was just trying to provide counterpoints to everyone’s arguments
