MoonlessNight
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- Sep 16, 2003
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I disagree with Trump on just about everything two people can disagree on. However, he's right in saying that "if Republicans succeeded in banning the practice [of abortion]", then women who sought abortions would likely be punished, as would the physicians that performed them. Yes, people who are convicted of lawbreaking face punishment, and if abortion were illegal, those caught having or performing them would face punishment as lawbreakers. Thank you, Captain Obvious.
This is one very good reason why I don't support criminalizing abortion. As a Catholic I utterly abhor the practice. It's the wrong decision, period. I cannot, however, stand by and support jailing a woman who was reduced to making such a terrible choice. I believe in ending abortion through education and funding for alternatives like adoption, not by putting desperate women through criminal proceedings.
What are your opinions of women who, because of economic hardships or mental duress, decide to kill their already born children? Currently such an action is illegal and such women are jailed should they be found guilty.
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