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[benchilada]

Via _tekwh0re_, an excellent article about an excellent question:

Opposed to abortion?

How much jail time for the woman is enough for punishment?

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[funranium]

Hooray! My eternal question is in the news.

Asking for the penalty of any given situation is the result of having read Beccarria's "An Essay On Crimes and Punishment" way too many times.

[kelglitter]

Go Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I was unaware that Ginsburg's dissent on the partial-birth abortion ruling called Justice Kennedy's opinion an "anti-abortion shibboleth." Right on. (For those wondering, she's saying that Kennedy's opinion on this matter is a litmus test declaring his opinion of women is wrapped entirely in an antiquated world-view. Shibboleth is a word used in a Bible story to determine a which side of a war someone was on - they said Sibboleth if they were on one side and Shibboleth on the other

[megrar]

well, clearly. if abortion is illegal for the reasons people want it to be, then it's premeditated first degree murder.

what are the punishments for that again? 50 years? life imprisonment? execution?

[ikichi]

Why am I surprised that so many hadn't thought of punishments? The idea that a mother could go to prision for not completing the last pregancy. -__-;; As much as I understand not wanting abortions (I mean, come on! What responsible person wouldn't want avoid pregnancy in the first place? Just because you're sure you're making the right descision doesn't make it fun or easy) I'm baffled at how little they're doing to, I don't know, educate people on preventing pregnancy in the first place. (I know, I know, nothing's 100%- even if you're not having sex with men you can still get assaulted, things still happen. But the groups traditionally aren't fans of sex ed or family planning.)

[froborr]

*applause*

Link ganked for own journal.