In the post below I didn't answer the "if made illegal" question. I believe in the past the criminal codes on abortion punished the doctors, not the women. I'd prefer that strongly. I think having states differ on abortion in preferable to the current abortion-on-demand regime. Because I am uncertain as to the status of the unborn as it relates to the word "persons" in the 14th Amendment, I think I would favor a Human Life Amendment. Unlike the left I don't read my own "deeply held beliefs" into the constitution. Such an amendment would not be without its problems. My main qualm is that all things being equal I'd prefer not to substitute a constitutional amendment for what should simply be criminal law. But my thoughts on that matter are ambivalant for reasons far too complex to go into here. I would note that such an amendment would have to be approved by 2/3rds of Congress and 3/4ths of the states. That's far more democratic than when seven unelected judges invented a right to abortion on the flimsiest legal grounds in Roe v. Wade and struck every democratically passed abortion law in the nation.
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