es347fan
07-30-2007, 12:48 PM
Here's a slice of the abortion discussion many have not considered. The video clip referenced early in the article has been pulled, as seen here (http://youtube.com/results?search_query=abortion+clinic+libertyville&session=TS05sLDHaZOQEzar-wcsl8GeQzT_F5oPznHLlHtQEJwxsV0WJ3F8rqmluy9WBHDIWtT jtZYP9cl6IL-xFhcln_Q3rsuf_4227mIN3tWKfwjtBhJZAYYs7cPq9vOzKp60r Gd0hrDuFsmsAOszn21JToE03lqwkWHJb5a6rIgnCaN8DxfFlIR EK9CmE-mHxdygQ2hzP7S6GrNJodaa0KpSKkSz4DOmEbLVruZmUTE9ECUp fNXdOTMYIx0wPKQSafwz0Y3wIGghGBWPI8GyRH26TCobzuWQXd qoiCmdPRmq4r8=), but the article hardly needs the support.
How Much Time (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20010696/site/newsweek/)?
Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking demonstrators who want abortion criminalized what the penalty should be for a woman who has one nonetheless.
(...) If the Supreme Court decides abortion is not protected by a constitutional guarantee of privacy, the issue will revert to the states. If it goes to the states, some, perhaps many, will ban abortion. If abortion is made a crime, then surely the woman who has one is a criminal. But, boy, do the doctrinaire suddenly turn squirrelly at the prospect of throwing women in jail.
(...) Nearly 20 years ago, in a presidential debate, George Bush the elder was asked this very question, whether in making abortion illegal he would punish the woman who had one. "I haven't sorted out the penalties," he said lamely. Neither, it turns out, has anyone else. But there are only two logical choices: hold women accountable for a criminal act by sending them to prison, or refuse to criminalize the act in the first place. If you can't countenance the first, you have to accept the second. You can't have it both ways.
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How Much Time (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20010696/site/newsweek/)?
Buried among prairie dogs and amateur animation shorts on YouTube is a curious little mini-documentary shot in front of an abortion clinic in Libertyville, Ill. The man behind the camera is asking demonstrators who want abortion criminalized what the penalty should be for a woman who has one nonetheless.
(...) If the Supreme Court decides abortion is not protected by a constitutional guarantee of privacy, the issue will revert to the states. If it goes to the states, some, perhaps many, will ban abortion. If abortion is made a crime, then surely the woman who has one is a criminal. But, boy, do the doctrinaire suddenly turn squirrelly at the prospect of throwing women in jail.
(...) Nearly 20 years ago, in a presidential debate, George Bush the elder was asked this very question, whether in making abortion illegal he would punish the woman who had one. "I haven't sorted out the penalties," he said lamely. Neither, it turns out, has anyone else. But there are only two logical choices: hold women accountable for a criminal act by sending them to prison, or refuse to criminalize the act in the first place. If you can't countenance the first, you have to accept the second. You can't have it both ways.
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