What if Roe vs Wade is Overturned?
Posted in Supreme Court
Apr. 8, 2008 at 14:11
by BrendaBee
Abortion rights (Roe vs Wade) has been the one most controversial Supreme Court judgments ever made. It is an issue on which opponents can find no middle point on which they can compromise. The fetus is dead or it is left to live; there is no in between! I have often considered what would happen if Roe vs Wade was overturned. This now is not a wholly impossible event given the current make up of the Court. If the next President is a anti-abortionist it becomes even more possible because the more liberal judges are getting old and being replaced.Well I don't have to do my own research if I truly wanted to get into this question because FactCheck.org has done that for me in this article .
As it turns out abortion would still be rather handily available regardless of the best the anti-abortionists can do. Here is the assessment of just what might happen:
"The Center for Reproductive Rights also predicts that some states that don't have bans now will institute them if the Supreme Court gives them the authority. In all, the center estimates that 21 states are likely to outlaw abortion immediately. This assessment is based not only on current law, but on the political makeup of the state legislatures.
According to the center, those states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
On the other hand, abortion is likely to remain legal in many states, according to these groups. Seven states already have specific laws protecting the right to abortion, with or without Roe, according to Guttmacher. The Center for Reproductive Rights identifies 20 states in which legal abortion would likely be preserved: Alaska, California, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. The remaining nine states, according to the Center, are at "middle risk" of an abortion ban."
So really all that would happen if Roe vs Wade were to be overturned is to put poor women back in the back alley abortion hack shops that Roe vs Wade was initially enacted to eliminate. And it would also open up a huge black market for any "abortion pill" that anyone can concoct. All of which means one of two things: damaged or dead pregnant women. Or far worse, if not dead then certainly severely damaged babies.
Aborting unwanted babies is as old as pregnancy and will never be eliminated, it will only go back underground which will cause far more problems, but being underground they will be out of sight of most who are yelling to go back before 1973. Then all the people who have been so vocal in this fight will go their merry way and only the social workers, police and hospital emergency rooms will be aware of and dealing with the consequences.
I will repeat what I have always said and believed: I hate abortion. The only thing I hate more is bringing an unwanted and therefore unloved baby into this world. People there are worse things than death! Far better an innocent soul be returned to the Creator than to be twisted and damaged by a wicked world and not being at least partially protected by loving parents. BB
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