What happens if abortion is made illegal?
This question was posed to anti-choice demonstrators in Libertyville, Illinois, who obviously hadn't considered what banning abortion would mean for women:
If abortion is made illegal, women will be criminalized.
Behind the anti-choice propaganda lie the real life consequences of making abortion illegal. It is not about morality speeches and grotesque pictures, but about criminalizing abortion, jeopardizing the health and safety of women and their families.
Not just someone you know, but someone you love may be forced to choose between seeking an illegal, dangerous abortion and carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term. It could be your mother, your daughter, your sister, your best friend. Someone you love may have to face the harmful consequences of criminalizing abortion.
If good doctors are not there for women, who will be?
If good doctors are not there for women, who will be?
There are those that want to criminalize doctors for performing abortions. If abortion is made illegal, doctors will also face difficult choices. They will have to choose to continue to provide safe, quality abortion care and risk criminal prosecution, or turn women away when they need them the most.
Criminalizing abortion will not make abortions rare, just very dangerous. It will force women and doctors into impossible, perilous, and criminal situations and put the health and safety of women at risk.
Criminalizing abortion will not make abortions rare, just very dangerous. It will force women and doctors into impossible, perilous, and criminal situations and put the health and safety of women at risk.
It is wrong to treat women like criminals for making a difficult, personal decision.
