re: The only one who ever receives the death penalty from rape

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You've been shown that making abortion illegal will not reduce the number of abortions, and will kill more women.

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No where has it been shown that making abortion illegal will NOT reduce the overall number of abortions. In fact, making something illegal will always result in fewer instances of whatever is made illegal. That doesn't mean everyone will obey the law, but that those who do obey laws will generally comply when a new law is made.

In addition, it's not just those women who seek abortions that will be impacted if abortion were made illegal. Those who perform abortions would be subject to the law and would need to perform abortions in secret and risk losing their medical licenses and fines and jail time if they are caught. The number of abortion doctors will be reduced which will make it harder for women seeking abortions to get one even if they wanted to defy the law.

I wouldn't want more women to die seeking an abortion in this scenario, but whatever number die seeking an abortion will be less than the number of children killed if abortion were to remain legal. If there was an absolute bloodbath on the streets, women would start wising up. They aren't going to kill themselves to prove a political point. If deaths in self-performed abortions increased, women would seek alternatives to whatever practices were there that were leading to those deaths. That's just how human nature works.

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Your policies will cost lives, yet you still lie and say it's about 'saving' them?

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Wrong. There is no way more women will die than the number of children who are already aborted every day. Your numbers don't add up.