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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Anti-abortion laws typically focus on the abortion providers rather than the women obtaining them,[/b] so most likely the laws would criminalize providing abortions. Any such laws would probably at least initially provide an exception for rape/incest because that is still politically favored, but would require women seeking an abortion for such reasons to report the assault to police and go through an adjudication of whether a rape actually occurred before being authorized to obtain an abortion. But the practical effect would be that such adjudication would end up taking so long to obtain that most, if not all, women seeking them wouldn’t be able to get them until they passed a time threshold (probably moved up to end of first trimester) where all abortions are banned, so they still wouldn’t be able to get them.[/quote]

This.  Legislation would make it a crime to perform abortions so there won't be anyone performing them.  This is how you ban abortion. [/quote]

I’ve never understood this logic.  If a husband hires a hit man to kill his wife we don’t say that only the hit man should be charged with murder.  What’s the difference?[/quote]

If your logic is that women who get abortions are murderers, then you are setting up a situation where every miscarriage (which is very common) would be investigated and women would face life in prison for a miscarriage that couldn't be proven. You'd be setting up a situation where women are scared to get prenatal care because what if they have a missed miscarriage and their doctor investigates?

Because most women who seek abortions are already moms, you'd have lots of motherless children, lots of women in prison. [/quote]

If abortion is murder, as Republicans believe, then logically there is no difference between a hit man and an abortion “provider”.  If there is a difference, then abortion isn’t really murder.[/quote]

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