As we know, in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roe and thereby made it illegal for states to completely ban abortion. At the time, there were 33 states that banned abortions in all cases; 4 allowed unrestricted abortions and 14 allowed abortions, but with some restrictions. This outraged many Christians and the Republicans astutely captured a large and active segment of the electorate by pledging to get Roe V Wade overturned.
One of the main reasons that Donald Trump won such a large percentage of the Evangelical Christian vote was because he pledged to nominate SCOTUS justices who would vote to overturn RvW and, to his credit, the two justices he has gotten appointed may well rule that way if given the chance. The topic of discussion assumes that five justices do in fact rule to overturn RvW.
Now what? Should Louisiana make it a felony for a woman to have an abortion in the State?
Let me begin by saying that I believe that aborting an unborn child is wrong. In every case, whether the child is known to have birth defects, is the product of rape or incest or even if the mother’s life may be put at risk if the child is not aborted, I believe it would be overall best if the child is allowed to live and if unwanted by the mother and/or father, is adopted by others who are willing and able to care for the child. That would be the “Ideal” and I would be willing to bet that a great majority of Democrats would say the same thing. Very few people are so heartless and deranged that they want to see children killed in the womb.
But, achieving the “Ideal” in the real and fallen world in which we all live is not possible. God has imbued human beings with a very strong desire to copulate. Would have been great if this desire was only aroused once two people are married and ready, willing and able to bear and raise children. As we know, the powerful drive to have sex does not confine itself to happily married couples desiring children – it is omnipresent and, if anything, its allure is enhanced for those outside of marriage to whom the opportunity presents itself. So, day in and day out, a whole lot of folks who definitely don’t want to create babies, engage in sex which I will term as “recreational copulation”. . And as a result, a whole lot of unwanted babies get conceived and the female partner suddenly finds herself with a crisis pregnancy.
So, what should we as a society do about this phenomenon and its undesirable consequences?