[Dilbert San Diego]

Can I ask a stupid question?

When abortion was illegal, who was punished for committing the crime? If Roe vs Wade were overturned, wouldn’t all of those old abortion laws come back on the books? What was the penalty in the old days? Why does nobody in the media ask this simple question as to who was punished in the past, when illegal abortions happened? Were women out in jail in the last for illegal abortions???

[Mears]

bfl

[Boogieman]

“When abortion was illegal, who was punished for committing the crime?”

The laws punished those who performed or “procured” the abortion, not the mothers.

[gdani]

If Roe vs Wade were overturned, wouldn’t all of those old abortion laws come back on the books?

I imagine those laws were eventually repealed, post-Roe. So, state legislatures would need to start from scratch.