Law has to have a legitimate public interest. I would argue that the legitimate public interest here is not in doling out individual moral retribution or karmic consequences, but in actually shutting down the abortion industry.
This you will only do with proposals that will carry two houses of Congress and survive the challenge of a Presidential veto; or which will do the equivalent at the state level. I can tell you right now that a proposal for punishing women who procure abortions, has exactly zero -— 0 —— chance of doing this.
The only legislation that has ever actually shut down clinics in this country, is legislation crafted to be woman-protective as well as baby-protective.
That may not make your heart race, but that’s a fact.
You are entitled to your own opinions, but not to your own facts.
Conceding ground in the fight before we have gotten to the negotiations table is stupid. Secondly, the punishment for abortions doesn’t need to be defined within the law that makes it illegal.
That stance is also hypocritical. We protect those that choose of their own free will to murder their own child? How about we protect women by preventing abortions from occurring, not giving them a free pass to get an abortion and than work after the fact to get the abortionist.