Laws only stop crime if the people care. And people who care, likely wouldn’t be committing the crime in the first place.
People who don’t care about the legality of something will commit the crime anyway.
What the laws do is give the government the teeth to deal with it when it does happen, and sometimes that will sway people.
If abortion were illegal, there wouldn’t be as easy access to it and lives would be saved and perhaps, just perhaps, it might convince someone to not have an abortion due to the consequences.
There are other options available to women who don’t want their children than to butcher them.
Is anyone keeping track of the zots on this and the other thread? (Which could use some action, the paultard/leftists have the field to themselves and just a couple of us right now.)
Link to other thread in case anyone wants to jump in:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2627138/posts?page=505
Avoid Social Issues, GOP Urged (Homosexualists, Pro-Aborts Co-opt Tea Party Movement)
Politico ^ | Sunday, November 14, 2010 | Ben Smith and Byron Tau
Laws also stop people who are borderline, not sure of right and wrong, are afraid of penalties, etc.
If something is legal but morally wrong, people will use the excuse - hey, it’s legal!
Obviously not everything immoral should be wrong. Or we’d all be in trouble - gluttony and envy are immoral but certainly should not be illegal!