Pro-Life People Only: How Should Abortion be Punished?

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In my opinion, we would have less abortions if proper sex education was required, and if birth control was easier to get.

Agree with this. More important to reduce the amount of abortions than focus on punishment. If public education actually explained what abortion was, what it means in a bigger context and why it is controversial to begin with, then I think far more people would be pro-life. Making it harder to get guns won't eliminate gun violence, same principle applies.

I'm pretty sure most people know what abortion is. Nobody is going to say "Oh no, the embryo dies in an abortion! I thought it gets to live on a farm upstate!"

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People aborted foetuses in the 1st century. Pliny wrote about the effectiveness of abortifacients, for one and the medical treatise De Materia Medica (written around 50 AD) recommended a mixture of squirting cucumber, hellebore and scammony to induce abortion. The Stoics regarded embryos as vegetable in nature until birth. Even then abortion was never really criminalised harshly until the 19th century took off, so quit shaming the 1st century dude.