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I had one when I was 17 and have had to deal with the guilt all my life. I have repented and am pro-life (and have been for years). But think about it--if a million women have had abortions since 1973, do you really want to arrest us all--over 30 million American women? Including those who are now witnessing for the pro-life cause about the mistake of having an abortion? Millions of children suddenly without their mothers? I don't mind facing God's judgment, but no way will you or anybody else take me away from my precious daughter in this life.

No, I was just thinking through if abortion was banned. If it is considered murder, then should it be treated like any other murder. And the mother would be considered an accessory to the crime.

Of course, our laws are not based in logic, but on politics and asinine notions of justice (such as putting people in prison, which I'm sure you will intensely disagree with me).

But I was speaking theoretically and philosophically, not pragmatically. Just if you followed cold, hard logic - what would that logic dictate?

I wasn't supporting the execution/rotting in prison of mothers and doctors, just extending the logic from the point of if abortion was considered murder. If you treat abortion different from other murders, then you are saying that unborn babies are worth less than people who are already born. I find such a difference very difficult to logically defend. Of course, our laws are not based in logic, but on politics and asinine notions of justice (such as putting people in prison, which I'm sure you will intensely disagree with me). But I was speaking theoretically and philosophically, not pragmatically. Just if you followed cold, hard logic - what would that logic dictate?

I don't disagree at all with putting people in prison who deserve it, to punish the criminal and to protect the rest of society.

I am not a danger to society. And as for punishment, everytime I look into the eyes of my beautiful living daughter and see the potential of a sibling there--that is my punishment.

I suppose if logic would dictate that if you made abortion a crime, and the statute of limitations never runs out for murder, than you should arrest all 30 million women for murder. Good luck with that. But I don't know how you could arrest them for a killing that was NOT a crime (legally speaking) when they did it.