Replies

"I can't imagine how anyone who's truly pro-life isn't going to hold the mother not just morally but criminally responsible."

"Can't imagine?" I can't imagine you've been around long, I mean actually on the front lines of the war against abortion.

I can't think of one person currently active in the prolife movement who would agree with you.

In my own 40 years of experience, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the female activists in the pro-life movement are post-abortive women. They repent, they work through their grief, and they become activists in expiation of their sin.

A law which held these women responsible for homicide, would be (1) un-passable, (2) un-enforceable, and (3) even if enforced, would destroy the prolife movement.

Any law, to be meaningful, has to be enforceable; and no anti-abortion law will be enforced without dogged, relentless push-push-push on the local level. That "push" more often than not comes from conscience-driven people whose experience with abortion was up close and personal.

In my own 40 years of experience, between 1/4 and 1/3 of the female activists in the pro-life movement are post-abortive women. They repent, they work through their grief, and they become activists in expiation of their sin.

It's very clear that none of the people spouting off on this issue have any skin in the game, have not been involved with the pro-life movement aside from being a keyboard commando on FR, and have a very limited knowledge of how and why women get abortions.

You are making two poor assumptions:

1) Those that received an abortion while it was legal, would face consequences.

2) That the consequence would be limited to only a murder charge.

While I believe that abortion is murder, the consequences may vary depending on mitigating factors.

I hear you. We'll never make progress in the fight for the life of the preborn if the concept scares people. That's mostly because they don't want to accept the fact that abortion is murder, just in case they or a loved one deciedes to get one someday.

So do what you have to do to advance the pro-life movement. But realize how much it is that we're not even fighting for any more.

FWIW, I have always, and always will, regard abortion as murder. But I won't let anyone know how crazy some of us pro-lifers are.