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 If abortion were illegal - what should the punishment be? (10)

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If abortion were illegal - what should the punishment be?

Should it the same punishment as murder? manslaughter?
Should it vary by how far along in the pregnancy it occurs?
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A couple of years? They just killed a living being! Abortion is the same as murder!

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If abortion were legally defined as an act of murder then it should face a punishment comparable to murder.

That's just logical.

Luckily, in the vast majority of the world it simply isn't legally defined as murder.

If abortion were illegal, doing an abortion should warrant a sentence that would be the same if they had killed a person; 25 to life.

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Being locked up with Numberone and his mad whore mother for ever and ever.

Wowee, can you think of anything worse?

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Abortion will never be illegal again in this country, the Republican party would never allow it. They depend on abortion being legal so that they can campaign against it and get gullible people to vote Republican because they mistakenly think Republicans are with them.

They aren't.

If abortion were made illegal the Republican party would cease to exist.

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the Republican party would never allow it

Yes we would, actually. The Republican party is against abortion entirely because it's immoral, not because we depend on it to survive as a political party.

If abortion were made illegal the Republican party would cease to exist.

Is that so? Then, why is the Democratic party still around? The Democratic party used gay marriage for votes for years, until it was made legal. That didn't destroy the Democratic party, so why would illegal abortion kill the Republican party?

achilles_(51) Disputed
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I think you have it all wrong. Republicans WANT abortion to be illegal. We don't "depend" on abortion, we just want it to be illegal because abortion is bad. Why would we want something to be legal in order to campaign against it? I'm not sure where you're getting this information from.

If abortion was made illegal, the Republican Party would still be alive, we wouldn't cease to exist. Our party isn't at stake of anything.

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It's voluntary murder, and should be punished as such. Once the egg is fertilized, and it has the potential to grow into a functioning human being, it is (or rather should be considered) life/living. From that point on, any attempts or methods to kill it should be punished as such.

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a punishment can be that they go to jail for a couple years

It’s not jail, its prison! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE