When Abortion Becomes Illegal

When killing children before they can be born becomes illegal, and all children are protected in law from intentional and unnecessary death through poison and dismemberment, here are some of the changes we can expect:

WOMEN:

Pregnant mothers no longer consider abortion a legitimate option.
Women will be referred to pregnancy care centers and community health centers that do not offer abortion, plus churches and domestic violence and sexual assault centers, and other community resources to address a woman's specific needs and concerns.
Anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies, chemical addiction, and need for mental health services will decrease.
Infertility will decrease.
Women may consider not having sex with men they do not want to father their children.
Women will not feel societal or personal pressure to abort their children.

MEN:

Fathers who would like to provide and protect their children will have opportunity to do so, even if the mother does not want their child.
Men who perpetrate crimes of sexual assault, including rape and incest, will not be able to cover their crimes through abortion and may be held accountable.
Pregnancy could become a way for women to escape abusers.

CHILDREN:

Thousands of children's lives will be saved!
Children may not be treated as property.
Children will know their value does not lie in their ability, health, age, or how they were conceived.
Children will not be missing siblings to elective abortion and may feel less pressure to perform. (Sometimes all the pressures and expectations of parents are placed on the one or few children chosen to carry to term.)
Children may have healthier birth weights and fewer health issues due to more children being carried to term. (Elective abortion can cause mothers difficulty in carrying a future baby to full term.)
Child abuse of born children will decrease as the value of children increase. (The year following the legalization of abortion, child abuse rose by 300%.)

FAMILIES:

Grandparents and extended families may be able to welcome children who would otherwise be taken from them.
Legal and financial barriers to adopt may be lowered with more babies available to adopt.
Parents would be expected to protect their children prior to birth as we expect of them following birth.

MEDICAL PROFESSION:

Time and resources may be spent finding new ways to save lives rather than destroy them.
Medical doctors will be expected to save lives rather than participate in taking lives.
Medical personnel will attempt to save all lives, treating both pregnant mothers and their children as individual patients.

BUSINESSES:

Abortion clinics will close - facilities that deceive women and prey upon children to take their lives from their mothers will not be able to legally operate or advertise.
Abortion pills would not be advertised or mailed.
Monies used to lobby politicians and advertise for keeping abortion legal could be used to improve the lives of women and children.
The unethical practices in IVF could be replaced with humanely understanding and improving natural fertility and stop the sale of humans and human body parts.
Illegal sex trafficking of minors will no longer have the cover of abortion clinics.

Abortion and mental health: quantitative synthesis and analysis of research 1995–2009, Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2018..

**A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015, National Library of Medicine, 09 November 2021..

***Incidence of Emergency Department Visits and Complications After Abortion, citing reported billing to Medicaid of California 2009-2010, ACOG, January 2015.