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sofiavioletHow Much Jail Time?
When I think about abortion, I think of its social causes and effects, about why individual women have or don't have abortions, about what I would do if I became pregnant or if abortion were to be criminalized. I've never actually given much thought to the legal ramifications of criminalizing abortion (jail time? fines? for doctors? for women?).
Neither, apparently, have the people on the anti-abortion side of things.
When I think about abortion, I think of its social causes and effects, about why individual women have or don't have abortions, about what I would do if I became pregnant or if abortion were to be criminalized. I've never actually given much thought to the legal ramifications of criminalizing abortion (jail time? fines? for doctors? for women?).
Neither, apparently, have the people on the anti-abortion side of things.
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Date: 2007-07-30 23:23 (UTC)When you confront anti-choicers on the fallacies of their rhetoric, they fall apart. They don't have the intellectual honesty to defend their position. Some abortions are okay, but only the really, really important ones (usually meaning the ones that violate their idea about punishing women for sexual activity, ie rape and incest, and the ones they themselves have. Remember, the only moral abortion is my abortion). Abortion should be illegal, but they have no idea about the penalty. Should back-alley abortions be policed, and if so, who's prosecuted--doctor, patient or both? For how long? And if all life is sacred, how do you feel about social services, welfare, war and the death penalty? (It's hard to respect anyone who says life is sacred until birth, then they can fend for themselves.)
I hate these nutjobs. I hate anyone who decides they get to make medical decisions for me. When men's sexual choices are policed as strictly as women's, then all things will be equal. We'll also be living in a police state, and me and Mssrs Smith and Wesson will be living out in the boonies somewhere in a compound of our own making, thank you very much.
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Date: 2007-08-10 20:02 (UTC)