Isn’t that a pretty bold assumption that the man made/had choice in the decision?
And preventing people from having children is a slippery slope…ugly ugly world to live in.
I am against people using abortion as a form of birth control. However, I am for freedom of choice. This premise assumes abortion equals murder, legally. I disagree staunchly. I think the punishment should be the person gets fined a yearly amount that would cover care for a homeless child.
Works for me.
Hey- how about we do this for everyone? Like in middle or high school when kids start to be sexually active? I bet we’d stop more women from having (needing) abortions then! 
The doctor performed the act, but the woman sat still for it.
If a mother takes her toddler over to her friend’s house, and the mother offers the toddler over to her friend to be killed, is the mother complicit in her toddler’s death? Or does the entire burden rest with the mother’s friend?
If abortion were made illegal again, then whatever penalties you would serve to the mother and her friend in the above scenario would seem to be appropriate penalties for a pregnant woman and the doctor who terminates her pregnancy.
I’m on board!
I wouldn’t have thought I’d laugh reading this thread, but that was hilarious.
This is easy. Once apprehended and convicted, the woman is assigned a pro-life voter who supplements her income through garnished wages, enabling her to support the next pregnancy and carry it to term.
She has to keep having sex with men.
Indeed, it is commonly stated in pro-life literature that no woman was ever prosecuted in the US for having an abortion prior to Roe v. Wade.
(I have no way of assessing the accuracy of this assertion).
Minor sanctions such as education and community service if the abortion is pre-viability but equivalent to first-degree murder if its an abortion post-viability.
I hate to have to tell you this, but it WAS illegal (:eek: I know, keep calm, take deep breaths) not that long ago. Unfair, ridiculous; didn’t matter. It was what it was, and what it was was illegal. This isn’t science fiction “what if” time.
In other words, don’t fight the hypothetical.
My Mother had 8 live births. Several that did not survive.
Not one of her kids was ever stupid enough to ask either parent about abortion in the family.
We did discuss it & being Catholic with 2 of Moms brothers are/were priests.
Mother told her brothers to shut up & sit down when they would have a brain fart and ask a silly question.
As far as government intervention, she just said that she was not stupid enough to let them find out what she did or didn’t do.
I am willing to be corrected, but IIRC when abortion was illegal, either the statute did not punish the women it if it did, prosecution policies were against indictments.
The aim was against abortionists and not totally unjustified considering their ilk.
For the mother
Mandatory 6 month contraceptive jab.
(Once a long term male contraceptive has been introduced, jack the lads should get a similar ‘punishment’)
For both parents, 10 hours community service in a preschool or children’s charity, or maybe they should be assigned to help out a new mother.
If sex-selection is suspected, a two hour class about how daughters (or for that matter, sons) are as good as their preferred gender.
If the foetus has downs, or any other easily detected condition, they should be forced to watch a film on how Downs-afflicted people can still have rich and fulfilling lives.
For the physician or surgeon, it would be appropriate to ban them from referring people for ultrasound scans for a year. Without the scans, sex-based termination and mutation-based termination would become a lot more difficult
What were the fines and charges before abortion was legalized? Not that THAT worked - just curious.
If abortion became illegal and a woman has an abortion, said woman would be sentaced to select one of the lawmakers responsible for passing the anti-choice legislation and said lawmaker would be delivered to Salam, MA for a ritual dunking. During the dunking, lawmaker must remaim under water for a minimum of 10 minutes before being resurfaced and questioned as to why the law was passed. Failure to answer this question will result in further sentancing of said woman to a minimum of 10 minutes of jubilation.
Yeah, just what was the penalty before abortion became legal in, what was it, 1972? And was it a state or federal penalty?
There were some prosecutions of providers, but digging up their sentences is a bit too involved for me now.
As noted above, I’m not sure that there’s any record of a woman ever being prosecuted in the US for having one.
Abortion was legal in several states before Roe v. Wade; there was no federal prohibition.
I agree with Weeping Wyvern.
In an ideal world, I’d like to see (where possible) the correctional system to shift from emphasizing forced labor instead of incarceration, so maybe eventually a couple of years’ hard labour.
Why?
The laws at issue in Roe v. Wade were Texas state laws, and they’re listed in one of the footnotes to the decision. There has never been a federal prohibition on abortion (though there have been a number of federal statutes designed to prohibit public funding of them.)
Note that they criminalized only the conduct of the abortion provider:
Force them to raise and care for a child they didn’t want, didn’t plan on having, and for which they are most likely woefully financially and/or emotionally unprepared. That’ll teach 'em!
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