Which would you perfer?

[Person Man]

Just answer the fuggin question.

[Person Man]

You are suggesting that reducing abortions and outlawing them are mutually exclusive, a false dichotomy, so I will not vote.

Well, how come the abortion rate in Europe is 2.7% of all women each year and in Africa its 2.8%?

[Person Man]

Still though, don't try to think of it as a false dichotomy. That's a non-sequitor. Just answer the question.

[Person Man]

Still...the question is whether it is better to have a few legal abortions or a lot of ones that you could prosecute somehow. Don't try to think of it beyond that. It is intrsincally a question where you have to chose between one or the other, regardless of what may actually happen.

[Person Man]

Yeah...in theory, if someone had to deal with the cops to get an abortion, people would probably be deterred. Then again, people might become resentful to the police and have abortions for simply the sake of rebeling. Another issue could be the loss of the need to prevent abortion when you can simply brush the problem under the rug. There could be a creeping stigma coming back upon single motherhood and thus increase the sociological need for abortions. I think that the legalization of abortion could have reduced some of the need to have an abortion in the first place by forcing people who don't want women to have to have abortions to de-stigmatize unwed motherhood. Just look at the Bristol Palin story. That would have never happened if abortion was still counted as a form of child abuse or illicit adultery (it was never part of the law against violent crimes in any state in the United States...(though it was a form of low-grade manslaughter in the Late British Empire ).