If You Don't Want People To Do Time, Don't Make It A Crime
My friend, Stephanie, posted this item on her blog. In the video, an interviewer asks several anti-abortion protestors picketing to make abortion illegal, "How should a woman who has an abortion be punished?"
Their answers blew my mind a bit. All of the activists in the video, most thinking about it for the first time, answer that they wouldn't want a woman who has an abortion to actually be punished. They just want abortion to be illegal. Huh?
http://www.atcenternetwork.com/?p=64 (requires RealOne Player)
I suppose this kind of disconnect exists in a lot of people's minds. They want something to be illegal to show their disapproval, but never think through the consequences.
posted by Mike Laursen @ 10:11 AM
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I know that some pro-lifers will focus their attention on abortion providers - doctors. So, they will advocate prison for the person who performed the abortion and/or suspension of their medical license. But I think the fact that they do not want to target women who abort is very telling. Partly, I think it is an effort to not appear "anti-woman", partly it is a statement that they believe that women just don't know any better. I think some will advocate counseling for the woman, which is sort of a lesser punishment that one might assign to an underage criminal. In any case, it's very silly. Any other person who hired someone to kill another would be charged with murder and prosecuted for the crime too.
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