Here is a question for those of you interested in the arguments represented by pro-life and pro-choice positions.

Let's say a law came along defining abortion as illegal.  Whom, exactly should that law encompass?

Obviously we would have to lock up the girl who chose to end her pregnancy.  And we'd have to go after the person who performed the procedure, along with anyone who stood by in a supporting role.

But is that the end of who's responsible?  I know of many young people who were brought up in religious homes, who became pregnant out of wedlock.  For many of these girls, abortion became a desirable option simply because they could not stand to face their judgmental family.

So, with the new abortion law, can we lock up the judgmental family for creating the hostile environment which the girl so fears?  Are there enough jail cells for the entire right wing of the Republican party?

Additionally, since something like 20% of pregnancies do not go to term (a natural fact most people do not talk about until it happens to them) what do we do with pregnancies that naturally terminate, in this new world of non-abortion legislation?  Do we separate cases that seem to be "flukes" from cases where the pregnant woman clearly did not eat right?  Can we jail a woman for refusing to begin a healthy-food diet the moment she begins to suspect she may be pregnant?  If so, what do we do with the woman who eats all kinds of junk food and yet remains able to carry the baby to term?

I recently read that there are triggers happening in the egg cells long before the sperm implants that will predict viability.  Can we legislate that abortion is okay, so long as the pregnancy could not have been carried to term anyway?

Just wondering,

Herring405