Creating mandates to the courts, and to medical authorities, without providing means of enforcement is a waste of time. How do you prevent the creation of men like Dr. Gosnell and his clinic with laws like that, when the laws governing the inspection of his clinic were not even abided by? For that matter, a waiting period placed on planned parenthood would only have driven his practice up.
Now, hypothetically, if the laws were obeyed and enforced, a waiting period might help. This, I think, is only because if you make any process more of a pain in the butt, more people are going to refuse to embark on it. A real law, though, (if we are going to entertain the idea that anything can be enforced) would be to require a woman seeking an abortion to meet with a potential adoptive family first. Meeting someone willing to love the unborn child, wanting it, and then proceeding with killing it? Now that's a law...
I agree. At best. I'd outlaw abortion within an ideal perfect universe.
But in a perfect world, nobody would get an abortion. Because abortion is wrong, and because people do wrong things, people will still choose to make wrong decisions.
But then again, because we don't live in a perfect world, and because outlawing abortion may be just as hard as outlawing gay-marriages, or anything else that may just be bad, then my second best vote would be for what Love Joy wrote above.
Love Joy wrote, above, that waiting periods, and required adoption suggestions may alter the woman's decision for abortion. Making adoption as easy as possible may also help, also.
But even if adoption is as easy as possible, some girls may pass because they don't want anybody to know what she did, or what the guy did, or maybe the guy said that he would do something bad if she didn't get an abortion, or it may be the pain, the shame, the regret, the responsibilities, the potential, the possibilities, even when the child is adopted.
Years later, the child could come back and find the birth mother and cause problems, "How dare you give me up for adoption." Mother could response, "At least I didn't abort you."
The adopted child may grow up, find the birth mother:
And get her onto Jerry Springer, a talk-show, or Dr. Phil, or something. And that doesn't have to be bad. But young girls may have their reasons why adoption may not be best. It may be any combination of all sorts of things.
So, I'd vote for a law that would educate people about adoption.
I'd include visiting adoption agencies, meeting with parents who may be incapable of having their own children. I saw something like that on Friends, a sitcom TV show, where Monica & Chandler couldn't have children. Then Monica lied and said that she was a Priest and that he was something, too.
But Chandler later had to convince the girl into letting them adopt the child (who ended up being twins). But that was due to personal contact, interaction, from wannabe parent people and people who have unwanted kids or are going to have unwanted kids (or kids they can't afford or something).
But a legislative law bill thing would have to encourage people to get past the mindset that adoption could be a bad thing. Some people don't like the idea of adoption.
I can only pray that those people may reconsider.
