If Roe is overturned, what will be the punishment for abortion?

[Funtatlaguy]

First degree premeditated murder by both the Mother and the Doctor?
So, will they be executed or given life in prison?
If a fetus is declared a person, that punishment would naturally follow, right?

Chew on that, you “pro life” fuckwads.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Overturning Roe would mean only that the states could regulate abortion

by limiting, prohibiting or allowing it. That means that state legislatures will become more important than ever.

[Funtatlaguy]

2. Slippery slope

Pence and his Christian Taliban believe that life begins at the first kiss or handshake.

[quartz007]

8. LOL that is so stupid and illogical

No fetus has ever survived if mother gets killed during 1st trimester, and extremely slim chance in 2nd trimester.

[Funtatlaguy]

13. Trying for a little humor in a terribly awful day and situation.

[quartz007]

16. Relax, my money is on Roe Vs Wade stays as is...nt

[Control-Z]

26. Are you a boy or a girl? eom

[quartz007]

34. why do you ask my gender?

What matters is that I have 2 daughters in their 20's.

[bettyellen]

46. Because I've heard tons of advice to "relax" from men, but never once from a woman who cared...

About our reproductive rights. Unfortunately it’s been a notable trend.

[Control-Z]

49. Because your comment sounded a bit like

mansplaining to me. Women don't often start a sentence with "relax". It insinuates irrational or hysterical behavior by the person you're responding to. If you had written: My money is on Roe Vs Wade stays as is. That would have been a more respectful response. That's all.

[mythology]

56. Panicking is irrational

And that's what the sky is falling stuff is. Literally nothing is going to change tomorrow. And screaming that all is lost unless our elected officials lose their minds too. But even if it was, when does panic ever help? When drowning? Nope. When there's a fire? Nope. It's irrational by nature.

And it's not mansplaining in my experience because the person who taught me to think that way is my mom.

[quartz007]

3. yes, then abortions become a state by state issue

as you correctly surmised.

[Funtatlaguy]

5. So what's the punishment for

A woman in a non abortion state who gets an abortion in those states?

[quartz007]

11. My guess is it will upto that state

since there will be no federal statute in place.

[Takket]

12. i wouldn't think anything............

just like if you go to Colorado and buy weed and smoke it, then go back to Wyoming, Wyoming cannot arrest you for buying weed.

[Funtatlaguy]

15. We may see extradition from state to state

Jeff Sessions would set it up and use the leftover holding cell cages from baby 👶 immigrants.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. There isn't one. If I do something in North Dakota that's not a crime in North Dakota

and then go to Nevada where that thing is a crime, Nevada can't prosecute me for it because I didn't commit that crime in Nevada.

[Takket]

9. assuming of course a Federal law isn't passed to ban it nationwide...............

which is why the november election is so important still

[quartz007]

14. The odds of that Law passing are close to zero

Actually I have serious doubt, even a 5-4 conservative court will abolish Roe-Wade. It is an established law, and the court does not lightly reverse something in place for decades.

[Salviati]

52. Counting on norms or precedents to rein in these radical reactionaries...

... is not something I would count on.

[quartz007]

58. Only things guaranteed are death & taxes

I base my opinion of abortions staying legal based on observing the current crop of politicians for decades.

[Hekate]

18. Abortion has been regulated from Day One. It has never NOT been regulated. nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

23. That's true. By "regulated" I meant more regulated or limited in ways

that are not consistent with Roe v. Wade.

[Iol59]

4. Run an ad 24/7

Democratic Party should be running an ad 24/7 from now til the election of Donald Trump saying "yes a woman should be punished for an abortion" when he was interviewed on Hardball.

[NurseJackie]

6. Probably death. I hear that self-induced, knitting needle and coathanger abortions are often fatal...

Probably death. I hear that self-induced, knitting needle and coathanger abortions are often fatal when the woman bleeds out. Or when there are other complications like infection that can also cause death or sterility.

[ariadne0614]

31. True, that.

I had a near-death experience at 19, due to a back alley abortion before Roe vs. Wade. Desperate girls and women won’t be deterred by laws against abortion.

[TheMastersNemesis]

7. Death Penalty Or Life Without Parole.

Abortion would have to be considered murder in the 1st degree if the fetus is viewed as a living human being at conception.

[Funtatlaguy]

10. My point exactly.

[CurtEastPoint]

17. Watch 'The Handmaid's Tale' They are the Unwomen.

[SCantiGOP]

19. Overturning Roe v Wade

Would make abortion illegal for poor women in red states. Most states would keep it legal, and anyone who could afford to go to a nearby state (or Canada if necessary) could still get the procedure.

Planned Parenthood has already discussed a fund and procedures to allow women who can’t afford it tonget transportation to a nearby state if needed.

[exboyfil]

27. Then the laws preventing the advertisement

of rides across state lines for the procedure. Minors even without parental consent will be barred from leaving the state to get an abortion. You can be sure that every creative way they can come up with to rat f**k poor scared women will be tried.

[Blue_true]

59. My guess.

As soon as they can, unless they are very rightwing, young women and LGBTQ people will leave red states. The brain drain is going to be enormous. California, eastern Oregon, Eastern Washington will likely be stopping points out of red states. On the eastcoast, Virginia, Maryland, DC, New York City metro, Conneticutt, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Southern New Hampshire will be stopping points for the red state out migration.

[nycbos]

28. That was the situation in Ireland.

Women who could afford it would fly to the UK.

[Hekate]

20. Death from sepsis or bleeding out. Unless you are rich. Loss of medical license for the provider.

Ah, the Good Old Days.

[SoCalDem]

21. infection...infertility..death? n/t

[Iliyah]

22. Politicans and people with money will be able to send their daugthers

and mistresses to another country for a safe abortion like before. The ones who cannot afford to go to another country will probably try to self abort or go to a local untrained so called abortionist which will require cash money.


Media is not covering what is happening in states such as Texas, and that is only the beginning.


History will repeat itself. Women and babies will die. Illegal and llegal abortionist will go to prison, and so will women who surives the abortion. The Prison facilities will make a killing.

[Blue_true]

60. I live in a red area of Florida.

Very religious. The city offers free birth control at some location here. There are women's clinics, but I never see protesters. A good percentage of republicans here are the chamber of commerce types, there are lots of deplorables, but there are lots of soft republicans that have deep family roots in the party.

[Still In Wisconsin]

24. I would imagine the woman and her doctor will both be executed

Evangelicals do love their death penalty

[RandySF]

29. I believe doctors were punished, patients not so much.

[StevieM]

32. I think you might have mis-wrote what you were trying to say here. (eom)

[RandySF]

37. Yeah yeah. I don't think patients were punished much.

[StevieM]

39. That won't last. Ultimately they will go after the women. They always do.

The U.S. is about to turn into El Salvador.

[bettyellen]

47. Women have gone to jail for miscarrying or getting high while pregnant.

[smirkymonkey]

30. Then they will have to pass some kind of law forcing the biological father to pay

child support until the child is 18 whether he is in a relationship with the mother or not. They can't force a woman to face such a harsh penalty without making the father responsible as well.

[StevieM]

33. Sure they can. And they will.

Besides, the GOP dream is for all children born out of wedlock to be given up for adoption.

[ariadne0614]

38. Don't be naive.

The patriarchy is reasserting itself, and women will go back to bearing all of the burden and all of the blame.

[Doreen]

55. How are they going to make the biological fathers pay?

they do not seem to do that very well now. If the child was produced out of stranger rape and the mother has no clue who it was then what? It still seems at least to some small degree that men still have less responsibility for the result of a pregnancy. We may be out of the dark ages ( for now ) but women still get the blame for becoming pregnant out of wedlock. We ( women ) may have come some ways in our rights when it comes to pregnancy and our bodies but not far enough and what we have gained is about to be taken away.

[smirkymonkey]

62. If they don't pay, taxpayers will have to instead. And that's not going to go over well.

They will have to find a way. DNA testing and wage and asset garnishments. They will just have to get creative because I am sure that the taxpayers are not going to want to have to support all these unwanted children and single mothers. They don't think things through. Outlawing abortion will be a disaster in more ways than one. Who will pick up the tab?

[Doreen]

63. Isn't that what happens now? It sure seems like it.

I was under the impression that is what welfare for single mothers is.

[smirkymonkey]

64. And they still hate it. The problem is that there will be a hell of a lot more of them.

[Tucker08087]

35. If this does happen,

There must be a plan put into effect for the fathers. If the mother is jailed or convicted but on probation, she would be deemed unfit, and the father MUST be required to step up or also face prison. Takes two to Tango.

[StevieM]

36. Here is what our future looks like:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_El_Salvador

[handmade34]

41. see #40

the future is here...

[handmade34]

40. the future is here...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/11/18/tenn-woman-who-attempted-coat-hanger-abortion-faces-three-new-felony-charges/?utm_term=.95a67047316c
2016

a grand jury... issuing an indictment with three new charges, all felonies: aggravated assault with a weapon, attempted procurement of a miscarriage and attempted criminal abortion.

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/ypa8z7/the-new-reality-women-charged-for-murder-after-self-inducing-abortions

36-year-old Bei Bei Shuai, who was charged with murder in Indiana in 2011 after she attempted suicide by way of ingesting rat poison while being 33 weeks pregnant. Shuai survived the attempt and ten days later gave birth via emergency C-section. The baby died two days later and Shuai was charged with murder and attempted feticide.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/22/abortion-pregnancy-law-prosecute-trump

Last year, Georgia prosecutors attempted to charge Kenlissa Jones with attempted murder after authorities claimed that Jones used abortion drugs to self-induce a miscarriage. Arkansas prosecutors charged a 37-year-old named Anne Bynum for allegedly using the same pills. The best-known of these cases even unfolded in Vice-President-elect Mike Pence’s backyard: Purvi Patel, an Indiana woman, apparently used abortion drugs she had obtained over the internet to try to end her pregnancy in its second trimester. Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison

[Solly Mack]

43. Thank you

[hexola]

42. Remember - during the election Trump said the women should be punished

He actually said that...

[Mariana]

44. It depends on the state, of course.

The higher the percentage of Christians in the population of a state, the harsher the punishment will be.

[Funtatlaguy]

45. So, Alabama death by stoning/Georgia death by hanging.

[Mariana]

50. Something like that, yes.

This is only at first, of course, when the states are permitted to ban abortion but aren't required to do so. Some states will refuse to outlaw abortion. That isn't acceptable, so before too long abortion will be made a federal crime, with federal penalties.

[Odoreida]

48. *Before* Roe what was the punishment?

According to state laws that existed at the time, the doctor was the criminal and the woman was the victim.

And RR overheated rhetoric notwithstanding, it was never legally equated with murder.


However, there can never be "going back to the old days" no matter how bad the legal regime gets, due to the efficacy of abortion drugs that did not exist back then.

[handmade34]

53. see #40

women are already being punished for self abortions

[haele]

65. Before Roe, there was not so many religious hysterics.

Yes, they were bigots and believed the woman should be a good little breeder for her owner, and also bear the wages of sinful activity. However, unlike evilangelicals these days, they weren't so crazy for blood sacrifices to appease their sociopath preachers and cult leaders that they're willing to let their own daughters be killed for the sin of being born female, moreso if the female is halfway pretty or has an independent or curious mind of her own.
The problem is when liberals and minorities lose their franchise or citizenship because of either apathy or voter suppression, and you can easily get angry a-holes who will eagarly hang anyone they can just to ensure their control over an ever decreasing base of followers.
And we're already seeing these Right Hand of Delusional God cult leaders running and winning local offices.

Haele

[TomSlick]

51. Follow the Talibangelical logic.

A fetus is a person. Therefore, abortion is murder. Therefore, both the doctor and patient are guilty of premeditated murder deserving of the death penalty.

I fully expect Roe to be overturned. When it does, half the States will prosecute woman for attempted murder for even seeking an abortion. Doctors performing an abortion and woman receiving the treatment will receive the death penalty. It seems inevitable.

The only hope is that when people realize what it really means to overturn Roe, there will be a backlash in the states. Maybe not much of a hope but it's all I see.

[Eyeball_Kid]

54. Using the logic of the anti-Choice folks, it MUST be a capital crime with capital punishment. n/t

[Funtatlaguy]

57. If a fetus is a person, just like a corporation....

Just ask Mitt....you can’t kill it without being killed yourself.

[FakeNoose]

61. Unwanted pregnancies happen to Republican women too

It's not just Democrats who would be affected. And this WOULD BE a disaster, except I don't believe they would ever actually do it.

[LeftInTX]

68. Yes, but they have the means to travel to states where it's legal.

Also abortion rates have been going down. Being a single parent doesn't have the stigma that it used to have, even for Republican women. (Sarah Palin's daughter)

[Staph]

66. I'm tired and upset over all of the recent bad news, but ...

Will they overturn Roe v. Wade? What can the Evangelicals use as a rallying cry without Roe v. Wade? What issue can the Republicans promise to the (im)Moral Majority?

That thought is the only thing keeping me sane this evening.

[LeftInTX]

67. I'm thinking the same too

For 40 years this has been their obsession.

Who knows...they probably have something more sinister up their sleeves.

Maybe they will insist on public stonings of gays or something.