I appreciate your handling of this controversial subject. I understand your interest in wanting to protect women in unfortunate, difficult situations. I also sure that we need to protect all women, even the pre-born. Something I've also come to understand is the irony of legal vs illegal. Changing the legal status doesn't change the nature of the action. Abortion has detrimental consequences regardless of government legitimizing it, just like fire will burn regardless of changing the descriptive adjective from hot to cold. Some consequences cannot be mitigated. Regardless of legal status, taking a life will have physical and emotional consequences for the mother and for the innocent baby, it's the harshest of penalties.
States have fought for the right to protect the vilest of lives. Pedophiles, rapists, murderers are spared from capital punishment in many courtrooms, yet, our most innocent and vulnerable are expendable, have no voice and are at our complete and utter mercy. Am I in favor of punishing women for "having no other options" or who are without any support system? No. But I believe there are always other options. They just are not taught or offered. What do we teach our children from a very young age about the street? Don't go in the street, don't go in the street. Why? Are we trying to deny them happiness or agency? No. We are trying to protect them from fatal consequences that we have no power to control. If we don't assign and teach correct consequences to behavior, nothing will improve.
I would love to see cheaper adoption prices. That would be wonderful. The past decades of sex ed in schools has not decreased the numbers of pregnancies and/or abortions, and healthcare can only address the physical side of this. What is missing in our society is a basic appreciation for the sanctity of human life, at all stages and ages, and the breakdown of families, the emotional side. If this were reversed, I believe the support systems would increase, the numbers of unwanteds/aborteds would decrease and there would be fewer cases of having to punish a woman and her doctor for killing an innocent 3rd party.
I am in favor of protecting ALL females (and males, for the record) and this includes consequences for behavior.
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