Wry Catcher
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Jailed for ending a pregnancy: how prosecutors get inventive on abortion
Once Roe v Wade is ultimately struck down as Trump predicted -- since Trump promised to appoint judges who will overturn the 1973 SC decision; how much time should women and abortionists get for having an abortion?? If you knowingly drive a woman to get an abortion, should you also be charged?
Now I highly doubt we are going to insist that women get the death penalty for having an illegal abortion, but they have to be punished somehow -- Also, would killing an abortion doctor then be considered justified?
It's a good thought exercise. For those who are hardcore anti-abortion and consider a fetus a life just the same as an adult/child/baby, the logical extension would be that a woman terminating her pregnancy is akin to 1st degree murder and therefore punishable by life in prison. An abortion doctor in that context could be considered a co-conspirator or a contract killer and subject to a 1st degree murder charge as well.
To suggest any less follows that you're not genuine in your assertion that a fetus is a life with full rights and protections under the law.
R v. W is the law and has been for the past 4+ decades. Efforts by the Right to Life Crowd and the Republican Party's continuing use of R v. W as a wedge issue is an example of false pathos; since the R's, when in control of the White House and The Congress, have never passed a bill to outlaw abortion, by sending a Constitutional Amendment to the States for Ratification, we can be reasonably sure they are more concerned with their election, than any fetus.
Sadly abortoin rates almost always go up under Repub admins as they are stupid and cut off birth control funding as well. The best way to stop abortion is to have less pregnancies.
The way to have less pregnancies is to stop fucking without protection.
Simple response to a complex issue, idiot-gram ^^^, ridiculous variety.