What if Roe vs Wade were Overturned?
PMpTue, 08 Apr 2008 13:52:21 +000052Tuesday 3, 2008 — brendabowers*******************************************************************************************
Abortion rights (Roe vs Wade) has been the one most controversial Supreme Court judgments ever made. It is an issue on which opponents can find no middle point on which they can compromise. The fetus is dead or it is left to live; there is no in between! I have often considered what would happen if Roe vs Wade was overturned. This now is not a wholly impossible event given the current make up of the Court. If the next President is a antyi-abortionist it becomes even more possible because the more liberals judges are getting old and being replaced.
Well I don’t have to do my own research if I truly wanted to get into this question because FactCheck.org has done that for me in this article .
As it turns out abortion would still be rather handily available regardless of the best the anti-abortionists can do. Here is the assessment of just what might happen:
“The Center for Reproductive Rights also predicts that some states that don’t have bans now will institute them if the Supreme Court gives them the authority. In all, the center estimates that 21 states are likely to outlaw abortion immediately. This assessment is based not only on current law, but on the political makeup of the state legislatures.
According to the center, those states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
On the other hand, abortion is likely to remain legal in many states, according to these groups. Seven states already have specific laws protecting the right to abortion, with or without Roe, according to Guttmacher. The Center for Reproductive Rights identifies 20 states in which legal abortion would likely be preserved: Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. The remaining nine states, according to the Center, are at “middle risk” of an abortion ban.”
So really all that would happen if Roe vs Wade were to be overturned is to put poor women back in the back alley abortion hack shops that Roe vs Wade was initially enacted to eliminate. And it would also open up a huge black market for any “abortion pill” that anyone can concoct. All of which means one of two things: damaged or dead pregnant women. Or far worse, if not dead then certainly severely damaged babies.
Aborting unwanted babies is as old as pregnancy and will never be eliminated, it will only go back underground which will cause far more problems, but being underground they will be out of sight of most who are yelling to go back before 1973. Then all the people who have been so vocal in this fight will go their merry way and only the social workers, police and hospital emergency rooms will be aware of and dealing with the consequences.
I will repeat what I have always said and believed: I hate abortion. The only thing I hate more is bringing an unwanted and therefore unloved baby into this world. People there are worse things than death! Far better an innocent soul be returned to the Creator than to be twisted and damaged by a wicked world and not being at least partially protected by loving parents. BB
PMpTue, 08 Apr 2008 21:45:03 +000045Tuesday 3, 2008 at 2:39
so dead women are worse than dead babies?…thats unique. thanks for your thoughts.
AMpWed, 09 Apr 2008 11:04:51 +000004Wednesday 3, 2008 at 2:39
Yes, dead women is worse than dead babies because the chances are good that these women are mothers who if dead would leave other children without their support. Having counselled women in Planned Parenthood Clinics I am aware that the majority of abortions are to women with children who feel they simply can not care for another child and/or neither can they take time from their jobs for a pregnancy since their income is needed by the family or is the sole support of their family.
Abortion is not taken lightly by most women. The only women I found who didn’t consider what they were doing were teenagers who just wanted it to go away. For most it is a very traumatic episode in their life that they know they will have to live with forever, but feel for some reason that they have to do. There is always a story of real human beings behind every aborted pregnancy and in most cases it is very real and affects others besides themselves.
By the way, I was in the clinics to try and talk women out of abortion and to offer alternatives. And the point of this post was not to encourage abortion or even to defend abortion but to point out that ending unwanted pregnancies is as old as time and simply to overturn Roe vs Wade will not end it.
I wish all the energy expended by those opposed to abortion would be as energetically turned towards helping children who have not been aborted. Lord knows the need is great and the suffering of LIVING children is even greater. It is estimated there are 12 million homeless children in this country alone. Since in most other countries , even so called civilized countries children are considered expendable, and often thrown out on the street to fend for themselves, the homeless rate is much much greater. Google homeless or street children in Brazil if you want to read a horrendous story. In Brazil the homeless children are periodically shot down like dogs by the policed in order to cull the population! Brenda Bowers
PMpThu, 10 Apr 2008 13:29:11 +000029Thursday 3, 2008 at 2:39
Nice commentary Brenda.
PMpThu, 10 Apr 2008 16:09:13 +000009Thursday 3, 2008 at 2:39
Thank you Sam Paul. As you can see my beliefs as far as abortion is concerned call out attacks but I have to keep making the facts, as I have learned them to be, known to as many people as possible. And of course try to promote more caring for the living children being abused, used and abandoned by families, society and even the state. One fact: the criminal code calls for more years in prison for killing an animal than it does for killing a child in most states. BB
AMpSat, 12 Apr 2008 11:33:57 +000033Saturday 3, 2008 at 2:39
Roe v Wade was passed with the blessing of the Southern Baptist Convention. The Baptists wanted to legalize abortion precisely because so many women were dying from unsafe abortion. If Roe is overturned, as Brenda says, abortions will still be available in many states. But poor women who live in states where abortion is not legal may not be able to access a safe procedure. They will, no doubt, return to the back alley; or they will try to raise the money to travel to a safe state — and their abortion will be delayed, which is a huge problem. Early abortions are safer than late ones. And, early abortion is an extremely safe procedure. See http://www.carolroye.org for more on this issue.
PMpSat, 12 Apr 2008 12:05:03 +000005Saturday 3, 2008 at 2:39
Thank you for stopping by and adding to my reasons to continue with abortions. There are better ways to reduce the number of abortions if that is what people truly want to do. One way would be to pay for poor women’s birth control pills or more permanent birth control methods. But this isn’t done, while old men are provided with Viagra thru Medicare. Go figure! BB