The difficulty with naming a penalty for an act that I do not consider in any way illegal, because it is none of my business if some woman has or does not have a child, is that I do not believe that ANY penalty is proper.
I agree with you. (Supprised?) Well, er.. okay, mostly I agree with you. My personal stance is, if it could live outside the mothers womb, then it's ceased to be a parasitic tumor type thing and has become a human. If you have it removed and it survives via life support and/or other medical care, and it goes into the "child welfare system" then I believe you should be paying child support to said system for the next 18 years. However, if it's still just a growth on the inside of a woman, it's my belief she has a right to have it excised.
To answer my own question, I think the punishment for performing an illegal should be community service of some kind.
I see that the usual people want to prosecute doctors for this. The doctor is not the person who decides whether the woman has the abortion.
Well, I did not state whether or not it was performing abortions or receiving abortions. Some people took it one way apparently.
If Joe Bananas decides to off Little Tony, and hires Rocco and Guido to do it, according to this logic Rocco and Guido should be punished, but Joe Bananas, without whom there would have been be no murder, goes free.
Seems to me it's more akin to do you arrest the prostitute or the john?
How many years are you willing to stick a seventeen year old girl, who does not feel that she can raise a child in prison for violating your personal morality code?
I'm not. But my opinion is above. But if what she does is illegal in the law, I think SOME punishment should be required. Be it $100 fine and 100 hours community service.
I personally do not ever plan to have an abortion. But it is my body and no one has a right to tell me what to do with it. If I wish to cover my face with a whacking Maori tattoo, it is not your concern.
Again, I maintain that if you wait too long, or change your mind at the last minute, then it could be murder. If they can save the life, then you're responsible for bringing it into the world. If you're just having a cyst removed. That's your concern.
Likewise, I do not control any woman's body, and would not presume to tell her what she must do with it.
It's just none of my business.
When you make blanked statements like this tho, isn't it akin to saying "I do not control what that women did when she stabbed her husband. It's just none of my business."?
