What are the positives that would be gained if abortions were illegal? (Assuming we have some agreement on rape/incest/health)
A lot fewer cruelly murdered innocent babies.
More dead pregnant ladies who didn't want to be pregnant and probably a few more murdered babies (actual babies who have been born) and toddlers.
Serious question: How many more of each, do you think?
Another serious question: Do you think large scale bans on abortion would lead to "back alley" clinics worse than Kermit Gosnell's, which somehow managed to exist under our current legal framework?
Probably about 10,000 dead women per year based on the fact that up to 5,000 women died per year in illegal abortions before Roe vs Wade and the U.S. population has doubled since then.
As for infants deaths, I really don't know. There are about 23,440 infant deaths already in the U.S. per year and about 3.9 million births. That's a rate of .6%. I think that in circumstances where the mother is forced to have a child she does not want (or should not have due to fetal anomalies), the death rate would be higher than the general population, let's say 5 times higher.
Maybe there are about a million abortions in the U.S. per year, and let's say that all of those are forced to carry to term.
1 mil x .6% x 5 = 30,000 death infants.
So 10,000 dead women and 30,000 dead infants per year. And yes I think that is more significant than a million aborted fetuses.
I think that the restrictions that anti-abortion activists have caused despite the fact that abortion is legal has lead to illegal "clinics" and yes I think that many more such "clinics" and worse would pop up if abortion were made illegal.
