All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. A common argument for keeping abortion legal is some variation on the idea that abortion is wrong, horrible, and the direct end of a human life, but it must remain legal because it cannot be stopped. This argument isn t valid provided that a good anti-abortion law is passed, but its faults deserve deeper criticism.
Prosecutors say that the hardest murder case to win is one where they never find the victim s body.
Most abortions are first-trimester abortions, and the victim s body is no bigger than an adult s thumb. Disposing of such a small body is easy, and therefore proving abortion cases will be very hard. Some doctors will continue to perform abortions because they disagree with abortion laws and will see resisting those laws as a matter of principle. Others will perform abortions because the practice will still be profitable. No law will stop those who are determined to have or perform an abortion, and we will not convict most people who have or perform abortions.