# If Roe v. Wade were overturned, what would be the practical results? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 4, 2005, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966 "2005-07-04T01:12:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/21 "2005-07-04T21:59:31Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Feminism has evolved to the point that is it pretty easy to oppose. This is not the same feminism which is associated with the 60’s and more correctly called feminazism IMHO. My goodness, that’s offensive. Let’s see: feminists fight for the right to have birth control and family planning resources. Nazis commit genocide. I see the similarities. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/22 "2005-07-04T22:04:21Z")
I’m not sure that anything that doesn’t involve Leni Riefenstahl or Ilse Koch can correctly be called “feminazism”. It’s quite easily one of one of the dumbest compound words ever created. ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2005, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/23 "2005-07-04T23:08:47Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > “feminazism”. It’s quite easily one of one of the dumbest compound words ever created. It was coined by Rush Limbaugh. I find it interesting that **kanicbird** says: > [@](#): > > You are using the extreme to make your point then does the same thing him/herself. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/24 "2005-07-05T19:40:15Z")
> [@BMax](#): > > It was coined by Rush Limbaugh. Well, Wikipedia says otherwise: > [@](#): > > The term was popularized by prominent broadcaster Rush Limbaugh, who credited his friend Tom Hazlett, a professor of economics at the University of California, Davis, with coining the term. In any case, neither man has reason to be proud of this particular contribution to the vernacular. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/25 "2005-07-05T20:25:00Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > We’ve discussed this before. Most recently [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=283721). (slight hijack). I hate when people do that. We’re discussing it NOW. Here in this thread. There may be different people, opinions, and presentations in this one. Please stop that. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/26 "2005-07-05T20:36:13Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Might be interesting to see if states that outlaw or hamper abortion see a relative rise in crime rates 15 years later, perhaps creeping up to the levels of the late 1980s before the “Roe+15” barrier was reached and crime rates began falling. > > Yeah, some state senator, long retired after a lifetime of public service and voting for anti-abortion laws gets clubbed to death for his car by some 15 year-old from an abusive, neglectful, lower-class home… irony. Per Dr. Stephen Leavitt, we should expect exactly that. It would be interesting if the Democrats used this to label the Republicans “soft on crime”. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/27 "2005-07-05T20:37:29Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > (slight hijack). I hate when people do that. We’re discussing it NOW. Here in this thread. There may be different people, opinions, and presentations in this one. Please stop that. Especially when they link to a thread that’s old enough to be a frowned upon “Zombie Thread” should we post to it. If a particular post says something truly interesting that hasn’t been brought uphere, and says it better than you could possibly convey here, then just link to that post. But don’t make it seem worthless for us to discuss it now because it was discussed six months ago. Grr. :mad: [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966/28 "2005-07-05T21:49:36Z")
My guess, and it’s only a guess, is that the overturn of RvW would spell disaster for the Republican party. Abortion has been the perfect issue for them. What other issue allows people to declare that it should be outlawed, and get elected for it, and never make any headway? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-roe-v-wade-were-overturned-what-would-be-the-practical-results/310966.md?page=1)