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[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]

You can look to Latin America to see what happens when abortion is banned. Middle class people can always have abortions. They just pay to travel to where it is legal. These laws only really affect the poor.

In many Latin American countries, it is a crime for doctors to provide abortions, so they don't in general. Some private clinics will provide abortions to rich people who can pay.

Poor people buy misoprostol illegally from a pharmacist or online. Most of the time, the pregnant woman can successfully abort the fetus at home. If there is a complication and she shows up at an emergency room, she risks prosecution. The real issue is when the medical professionals suspect an abortion when it was really a miscarriage. It is often not easy to tell the difference. There are several Central American cases where a women was accused  of causing an abortion and she argued it was a miscarriage. Poor people often can't get adequate counsel to defend themselves, so there is a risk of an innocent person being convicted for having a miscarriage.

You also end up with the situation where a doctor, who is meant to help the patient, must turn her in to the authorities for a suspected abortion.[/quote]

This.

Anti-abortion folk are monsters.[/quote]

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