chuckmore asked: When Roe v. Wade is overturned and abortion is made illegal, what should the penalty be for women who have abortions? If the crime is not murder in the first degree, and the punishment is not the death penalty, please explain why.
Firstly, one cannot support the death penalty and oppose abortion (just as one cannot be pro-abortion and anti-death penalty); each procedure functions under the same principle. No one should be executed. An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind, and the same amount if not greater uncertainty plays a role in capital punishment as in abortion semantics.
Secondly, if abortion is outlawed, it would (or at least it should) be because the people had the right to choose whether they wanted their individual state to permit it. Federally outlawing it’d be just as wrong as its being federally sanctioned until conclusive proof emerges that a fetus is indisputably human life. Again, my stance is based in erring on the side of not potentially killing millions of people.
If abortion is murder, then hell yes, charge them the same. Intentional killing of another human being, malice aforethought etc. Where that person is or how they did it is irrelevant.
That’s if abortion is murder. And that’s a big if, because the nature of pregnancy is still not entirely understood (although most “pro-choicers” falsely claim to personally know otherwise).
