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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