Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. The woman has to live with herself for the rest of her life, the doctor gets whatever a murder charge carries in that state. That will dry up the supply of people who will do abortions pretty quickly.
>> Yeah, that’s what I was thinking too. The woman has to live with herself for the rest of her life, the doctor gets whatever a murder charge carries in that state. That will dry up the supply of people who will do abortions pretty quickly.
... as would lesser prison time (and charges) for the doctor, coupled with a huge fine and loss of medical license.
The “elephant in the living room” is this: abortion is big business. HUGE business. Greed more than ideology has destroyed the spirit of the hippocratic oath for the medical profession.
“That will dry up the supply of people who will do abortions pretty quickly”
No. There have always been Drs or people with medical training (or no training at all) willing to perform abortions. They were doing it when it *was* illegal. My great grandmother’s sister-in-law died in 1919 from an illegal abortion after having (and losing) seven children, when she was close to 50.
Ask anyone who worked in an ER prior to Roe vs Wade. They’ll tell you about the supply. They treated the aftermath, the butchered uterus, the spiky fevers, the hemorrhaging, the infections, the deaths.