Many countries today (most of them Muslim) seriously limit or prohibit abortion. Again, it doesn't stop all abortions but it sure makes a dent.
No law has ever stopped smacking infants against a wall. But it's better to have a law, than not.
It's also far better to have a lawful marital-intercourse normed culture. These have been normal throughout history. Hence the term "norm."
Abortion was practically never-to-be-spoken-of in my mother's youth, and that was not in the Jurassic. She told me that when she first, inher 20's, heard that "if you know who to ask, you can get one in NYC" she thought it was surely only prostitutes and mobsters.
Justice does not prevail on this earth. Laws against sodomizing seminarians doesn't even stop bishops sodomizing seminarians, laws against Fentanyl don't stop Fentanyl. But one does what one can.
I agree that it’s better to have a law, and that a law makes a difference in the numbers. I’m just saying that I don’t think it’s likely we’ll ever, again, have a law in the United States.
Well, no, I don’t really mean that. In the hypothetical absence of Roe v. Wade, some states would roll back the total abortion license, and that would save lives. That’s a good outcome.
With that view, I should feel more positively, but the cloud of sin and hatred around the whole issue of sex just oppresses me.
Was that against the law? I thought that fell under, "I don't care what consenting adults do in the bedroom." Isn't this the outcome you wanted? (Not you, personally, but you, the generality.)