Newsweek article.

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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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I think for a lot of them, it's just a blind spot. They've never been asked to think about the penalties in a world where abortion is illegal, and it hasn't occurred to them to think about it. Some people might be able to articulate what they think should happen if they took the time to figure out what they think, but others can't.