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greenmountaingal · 70-79, F
I lived the first 30 years of my life before abortion was made legal. One of my schoolmates in high school died from getting an abortion in Tijuana, Mexico. Making abortion illegal again would do several bad things:
1. It would create a black market for illegal abortions similar to the black market for illegal drugs today and like the black market for marijuana that existed until fairly recently. That means more time, energy and money spent on policing, convicting and imprisoning people. It would create a new criminal class. Our legal system and our prisons are already overcrowded. Most people in our society would rather use the space in prison for murderers who kill actual live human beings instead of ending the viability and potential life of fetuses.
2. For a woman to have true equality and power, it is necessary for her to control the use of her own body for reproduction. Although contraceptives are effective for this, they are not 100% effective. Although some say that the fetus has a right to be born, most people would put the rights of an already born person, the potential mother, over the rights of the fetus which had not yet become ready to breathe and live on its own.
3. Many women already have the number of children they can support and properly nurture. To add more children would place a burden of poverty and less care on the other children and the entire family. Ultimately, this would lead to more poverty and increase the problems that society would have to bear as children grew up with parents who had less money and less time to focus on them.
4. Since is very unlikely that people will stop having sex, and since having a baby would burden people (especially women) with responsibilities and expenses for which they are not prepared, illegal abortions would occur. Since the government and the medical system cannot regulate illegal abortions, or attempts at self-abortions, many women would die of these attempts to control their own reproductive abilities. Everyone over a certain age remembers young women who died in these kinds of situations.
1. It would create a black market for illegal abortions similar to the black market for illegal drugs today and like the black market for marijuana that existed until fairly recently. That means more time, energy and money spent on policing, convicting and imprisoning people. It would create a new criminal class. Our legal system and our prisons are already overcrowded. Most people in our society would rather use the space in prison for murderers who kill actual live human beings instead of ending the viability and potential life of fetuses.
2. For a woman to have true equality and power, it is necessary for her to control the use of her own body for reproduction. Although contraceptives are effective for this, they are not 100% effective. Although some say that the fetus has a right to be born, most people would put the rights of an already born person, the potential mother, over the rights of the fetus which had not yet become ready to breathe and live on its own.
3. Many women already have the number of children they can support and properly nurture. To add more children would place a burden of poverty and less care on the other children and the entire family. Ultimately, this would lead to more poverty and increase the problems that society would have to bear as children grew up with parents who had less money and less time to focus on them.
4. Since is very unlikely that people will stop having sex, and since having a baby would burden people (especially women) with responsibilities and expenses for which they are not prepared, illegal abortions would occur. Since the government and the medical system cannot regulate illegal abortions, or attempts at self-abortions, many women would die of these attempts to control their own reproductive abilities. Everyone over a certain age remembers young women who died in these kinds of situations.