An attorney, failed to explain that prior to Roe, when abortion was illegal in nearly every state, women weren't being rounded up in jails for having abortions.
There were only two reported abortion cases, he found, "In which a woman was even charged for having had an abortion." In Pennsylvania, a woman took a drug to produce abortion, but the trial judge refused to enter the jury's guilty finding because "The statute was not intended to apply to the woman."
Forbes Magazine last week suggested that reversing Roe will lead to birth control pills being outlawed because "Defining the life of an 'unborn child' as starting at fertilization or conception would affect common birth control methods." But users of IUDs or the Pill were never prosecuted under the criminal abortion laws that were in place prior to Roe, so why would they be prosecuted if Roe is reversed? Most of the abortion laws prior to Roe defined the unborn child's life as beginning at fertilization or conception.
Further, as eminently principled pro-life advocate and late Notre Dame law professor Charles Rice wrote, "Early abortifacients are beyond the effective reach of the law. It will usually be impossible to prove that life was terminated in an early abortion; prosecution for abortion therefore would be practically impossible."
In footnote 34 of Roe, Justice Harry Blackmun cited Eugene Quay's article, "Justifiable Abortion - Medical and Legal Foundations," which excerpted laws from 19 states and Washington, D.C., all of which classified abortion as manslaughter or second-degree murder, or had similar penalties for such.
At the time Roe was decided in 1973, all states had either restricted or prohibited abortion.
More than 63 million children have had their lives legally taken by abortion since 1973 under Roe.
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