Thanks TaxTheChurches and Mary for your excellent writing. It's very sobering. We are going to hit some dark times in our history. Desperate women will do desperate things. Remember the teen in Utah that paid someone to punch her in the stomach and beat her up to try to end a pregnancy? Most abortions are chemical now so there will also probably be a flood of snake oil abortion potions and fake doctors that will cause harm and suffering. If exceptions are made in the law for rape (which is often very hard and time consuming to prove), there may also be increased false accusations of rape so real rape victims will not be taken seriously and those exceptions will probably disappear. As many as 15% of pregnancies end in miscarriage - devastated women will be forced to prove they weren't trying to have an abortion during tremendous grief. In the book Freakonomics, it was proposed that a drastic drop in crime rates happened around 18yrs after Roe was passed. If that's any indication, there will be bunches of unwanted children that need a lot more services than are available that end up in poverty and incarcerated. Lots of grim stuff.
@EscKey good points about other consequences of this. Just fyi, though, more like 1/3-1/2 of pregnancies end in spontaneous abortion aka miscarriage, many that were not even known to be pregnancies
Thanks TaxTheChurches and Mary for your excellent writing. It's very sobering. We are going to hit some dark times in our history. Desperate women will do desperate things. Remember the teen in Utah that paid someone to punch her in the stomach and beat her up to try to end a pregnancy? Most abortions are chemical now so there will also probably be a flood of snake oil abortion potions and fake doctors that will cause harm and suffering. If exceptions are made in the law for rape (which is often very hard and time consuming to prove), there may also be increased false accusations of rape so real rape victims will not be taken seriously and those exceptions will probably disappear. As many as 15% of pregnancies end in miscarriage - devastated women will be forced to prove they weren't trying to have an abortion during tremendous grief. In the book Freakonomics, it was proposed that a drastic drop in crime rates happened around 18yrs after Roe was passed. If that's any indication, there will be bunches of unwanted children that need a lot more services than are available that end up in poverty and incarcerated. Lots of grim stuff.