The point of banning abortion is to deter it and I’m sure if a woman risks death by doing so, she’ll think twice before doing it or even engaging in sex knowing she’d kill if she got pregnant.
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...and since abortion became legal in Britain six years before Roe vs. Wade, there have been attempts to change that legislation. But since then, every single Free Vote in Parliament has failed.
It's not only certain MPs who don't get the point.
“The point of banning abortion is to deter it”
"and I’m sure if a woman risks death by doing so, she’ll think twice before doing it”
"or even engaging in sex knowing she’d kill if she got pregnant.”
<@KeithInc. > #152772
Of course banning something makes it less common. That’s why you can hardly throw a rock without hitting someone who tried alcohol or caffeine, while cannabis use is so much rarer. It’s also the reason why people argue about this kind of law at all, whether it’s abortion or gun ownership or DRM; banning something makes it rare and harder to get. If it doesn’t, you live in a failed State.
The things you have to ask yourself about whether something should be banned are:
- is the thing you want to ban actually responsible for the problems you’re trying to solve by banning it?
- given human and monetary costs of enforcing a ban, is it worth it?
@pyro #152787
I’ll allow that it makes it less visible. I don’t think it quite tracks with frequency.
I also knew homosexuals at every command, and only the last one was during DADT.
But i think you’re right, the problem these people want to solve is knowing about abortions. If they can’t be done legally, then these can pretend it can’t be done.
And they don’t care how much money is spent enforcing laws that make sure their tax moeny isn’t paying for abortions. It’s not about spending a million $’s to save a thousand $’s, it’s about an air gap in the connection betweeen them and the thousand.
@Sasha #152841
And many other creative (but nonreproductive) forms, of course, thanks to human creativity, preliminaries, etc...
Confused?
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