Newsweek article.

[sofiaviolet]

How 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.

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[tragicwhore.livejournal.com]

"it seems unexceptionable to conclude some women come to regret their choice to abort the infant life they once created and sustained."

this is a phenomenon I refer to as "buyer's remorse"

you ever buy something, and then get home and go "why did I buy this? I didn't want this" but the store won't take returns. then you go back anyway and argue with management that they should break policy because you made a choice that you now regret.

people in general, americans especially REFUSE to take responsibility for their own actions. making abortion illegal because some one might regret getting one is essentially absolving a woman of all accountability for her own actions.

"I killed my baby and now I'm sad inside and wish I hadn't done it. abortions shouldn't be legal"

if I heard some one say this my first thoughts would be:

1: ok, and as soon as they pass that law, I'll report you so you can be tried and sentenced, since you really think what YOU CHOSE TO DO should be illegal.

2: the choice was made of your own free will, don't go crying to some one else that you made a bad decision, so clearly no one should have the right to make it either.

3: good, you fucking deserve to be sad inside, because if you really feel that way then you clearly didn't give it enough thought before you went through with it. when you make a serious life altering decision without giving it proper thought, you have no one to blame for the outcome, good or bad, but your self.


I'll stop now before I rant anymore.

[sofiaviolet]

I can definitely understand feeling sad even if one has put a lot of thought into whether to have an abortion, but one grieves for a while and then moves on.

Either it was the right choice for the situation, or it was the wrong choice and you regret it but you move on anyway, because sometimes you make decisions that you regret, but so does everyone.