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**Calluffence** · 04-24-2009, 02:41 AM

Criminalizing abortion just drives it underground where it is practiced far more dangerously than it need be (apply same argument to prohibition generally here).

A rather shaky argument for two reasons:

A. If you believe the fetus is a person, which is pretty much the only reason to oppose abortion, the banning of abortion only terminates more human life if more than 50% of all women who would have had legal abortions have illegal ones and die as a result. Otherwise it's a net gain, albeit less tidy since half the mangled bodies aren't put in baggies and tossed in a biohazard bin at Planned Parenthood.

B. Prohibition was a failure not just because people continued to drink, but because their thwarting the law led to the development of vast organized crime empires. Does anyone believe there will be turf wars between underground abortionists named Larry the Forceps and Big Joe Saline?

04-24-2009, 02:41 AM	#9
Calluffence Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 450 Senior Member	Criminalizing abortion just drives it underground where it is practiced far more dangerously than it need be (apply same argument to prohibition generally here). A rather shaky argument for two reasons: A. If you believe the fetus is a person, which is pretty much the only reason to oppose abortion, the banning of abortion only terminates more human life if more than 50% of all women who would have had legal abortions have illegal ones and die as a result. Otherwise it's a net gain, albeit less tidy since half the mangled bodies aren't put in baggies and tossed in a biohazard bin at Planned Parenthood. B. Prohibition was a failure not just because people continued to drink, but because their thwarting the law led to the development of vast organized crime empires. Does anyone believe there will be turf wars between underground abortionists named Larry the Forceps and Big Joe Saline?
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