If the Supreme Court becomes an entity with the power to criminalize abortion, then abortion will go underground. I don't see women just pushing it off the table as an option.Sadly, it's the marginalized groups already - those living in poverty, those without education, without medical and contraceptive resources - who will suffer. Poor, single, disenfranchised women who find themselves pregnant and opt for (a medically risky) abortion would then have to add criminal to their list of attributes. And what will society do then, incarcerate them?
I just don't understand this reasoning. Why don't we use all the money and resources it would take to prosecute abortions and spend it on the root causes? It seems to me there are better ways to reduce the number of abortions in this country than to hang all those "bad women" who seek them.
Painting by Haitian artist Raymond Cadet, from Jane's Addictions.
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We crimininalize because that's big business these days. When we privatised prison our freedoms became the ward of the Almighty Dollar, which sought to profit off of stripping them away.
Currently the US has 700,000 MORE prisoners than China, at a time when violent crime rates are at a historic low. Look it up, here's my source:
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Now these social welfare programs you speak of, they don't sound profitable at all (unless you mean beyond next quarter's earnings)
Holy cow, you're right. Prisons are big business, and big business is profiting from all that low-wage (slave?) labor.
Is it any leap of the imagination now for me to think that big business would support a candidate with an anti-abortion stance?
This topic gets slimier the more I read into it.
Given this post of yours, I thought you would be interested in this one I wrote some time back. The video is the most amazing thing about it.
http://orwellsgrave.blogspot.com/2005/07/they-know-not-what-they-do.html
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