Somehow, I’ve never really agonized over this. As I see it, there are two questions here:
1) Is abortion wrong?
2) Should women who abort be punished?
In the wake of Roe v Wade, I only concern myself with Question #1 — I say abortion is wrong, and I want to see abortions end in about 99.9999% of cases. That’s the big thing for me.
Punishing the women? Such an idea pretty obviously gets in the way of the solution to Question #1.
Only the Pro-Abortion people want to obsess over the need to punish women who abort. As a Pro-lifer, I have no interest in it.
I’ll play Devil’s Advocate.
You seem to express a great deal of outrage at abortion. But how wrong can it really be if you don’t want anyone punished at all?
And how do you stop it without the perpetrators suffering some consequences? And do you still call it murder?