And you also know no one is advocating for abortion. This "argument" is disingenuous, at best.
We have been discussing the most appropriate ways to make abortion a rarity. Twisting the legal system to handle this will only push women who seek an abortion underground. Not one life will be saved.
We all want the babies born @roamer_1 I can only pray the time is approaching when we will discuss the alternatives and the ways to help make this a reality without pushing for punitive legal dictates --- that will not happen and would not work.
Well, permit me to say that the status quo appears to be somewhat ineffective as a deterrent. When something is legal, it becomes commonplace--the taboo is gone, the excuse that it is legal prevails, and morality is lost to the discussion.
I also find reason to question that as many underground abortions would be conducted as currently are with publicly funded franchisees widely distributed and advertising their services. Just maybe people would take advantage of the myriad preventative alternatives and not need the services which are so readily available and even subsidized at present. Certainly there would be less counselling in advocacy of the services of abortion mills.
So, in the interest of saving lives, and what, frankly, has worked in the past, I would go so far as letting the States, in accordance with the 10th Amendment to the United States Constitution, make their own laws in this matter, which would for large areas of the country be far more restrictive on this claimed 'right' to murder offspring in the womb. This requires no legal contortions, only a reading of the tenth Amendment and the confirmation that nowhere in the Constitution is the Federal Government given the power to make abortion legal.
I think that would work, if that is the objective, reducing the number of abortions first, and second, encouraging people to make more responsible decisions and thus reducing the number of incidents leading to seeking such services.
What we are doing now hardly seems to be effective.