Many Officials in Anti Abortion States will Not Enforce Anti Abortion Laws


Several more officials have announced publicly they will not enforce anti-abortion laws. This could mean these anti-abortion states are already drifting toward the models of anti-abortion countries. In those countries, including ones which now have liberal abortion laws, the actual enforcement of anti-abortion was focused on low hanging fruit. Officials did not want to use up their budgets trying to impose anti-abortion on families with the money to fight back. Thus, officials aways went after poor rural young women. Abortion was available to all with some money in urban areas. Abortion providers said they felt safe even in countries with strong anti-abortion laws and political rhetoric. 

It seems to me enforcement of anti-abortion laws would be time consuming, meaning expensive. If agencies are not provided more money they will have to reduce enforcement of something else in order to arrest women or those who aid or provide abortions. The same with those who receive the evidence of abortions, prosecutors. I assume prosecutors are busy now. Will they not prosecute bank robbers and murderers in order to make room for women and those who aid in abortions? This is the very reason some of those in the link say they will not prosecute, it would require a reduction in prosecution of real crime.

Supporters of anti-abortion laws are probably saying the threat of criminal charges will close some abortion clinics. That has happened. How much, if any, it has cut the number of abortions is unclear. There must have been some. One estimate I saw was 10% fewer abortions.  

This 10% number assumes there will not be an increase in secret abortions and secret channels of abortion medicines. Time will tell about those. I would guess as time goes on there will be more underground availability. I took several decades for efficient and safe abortions to be available before Roe. The book I have discussed about the Jane organization illustrates this. These underground abortions in Chicago did not start until just a few years before Roe. Lower quality, i.e., dangerous abortions were available. Doctors with neighborhood practices also did them and kept no records.

Shoes keep dropping about both anti-abortion efforts and push back. It's an exciting time. 


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