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Originally Posted by entsetzen";p="
i agree completely. and i think one thing the people against abortion don't fully take into account is that when / if it is made illegal, we will only have more mothers and children dying due to the coat-hanger abortions that used to be common before clinics were open. the deaming of abortions as illegal will only cause more trouble and make mothers who are insistant on getting one to resort to illegal / unsafe means to get them. it won't stop the problem, only enhance it and cause more deaths and injuries
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Good point, the posters making the anti-abortion argument completely ignore problems that would arise in the future.
For example, if abortion is made illegal, or worse, is considered an act of murder, how would they ever attain a conviction?
All it would take is one jury member believing that the right to choose should not be trampled on, and there goes your potential conviction down the toilet. Given that public opinion on abortion is about 50/50 in the U.S., it is reasonable to assume that no prosecuter would even try a case or no judge would waste his time.
This is what happened in Canada, the Quebec government went after an abortion doctor 3 times in a row in the 1970s, and each time, the Jury acquited him. The Jury consistantly agreed that women have the right to choose, therefore the government changed the laws and abortion was made legal. Wow, what a surprise, a Jury agreeing that human rights shouldn't be a trampled on by the state.
The same thing would just happen in the U.S., a Jury would not accept having their rights revoked, and thus they would acquit or at worse end up hung. The government would be forced to change the law back.
How does the anti-abortion crowd intend to approach this issue? Well, they have no approach, they are ignorant, they have no critical thinking skills, they don't look ahead and even worse, they are determined to repeat the mistakes of the 1970s Quebec government. What else is new?