Should Women Who Have Illegal Abortions Go To Prison?
I just saw this video today although from what I understand it has been around for awhile now. Somebody asks these pro-life demonstrators what should happen to women who have illegal abortions and the consensus seems to be "Umm. I dunno."
Digby has a
great post on this:
Picture if you will a poll in which Americans are asked if women should be jailed for murdering their unborn child with an illegal abortion. What do you think they would say? Considering the fact that even the anti-abortion picketers in that video don't know what to say, I think it's fair to assume that it would be rejected by more than 90 percent of the population.
That's because it's clear that there is almost nobody who believes that abortion is murder in the legal sense of the word. How can there be a law against "murder" where the main perpetrator is not punished? How can it be murder if these people don't believe that the person who planned it, hired someone to do and paid for it is not legally culpable?
(via
Shakespeare's Sister)
