Gorsuch will not overturn R v W. A quick look at his history will tell you that much.
Nobody is going to overturn RvW, as nobody is prepared to deal with a million extra babies a year and nobody is willing to throw women in jail for having one.
Judging by his performance so far, I'd say it's going to depend on whether or not someone can make a solid, Constitution-based argument about it.
And nobody is talking about "throwing women in jail for having one", so spare us all your straw-man arguments.
So how do you stop them from having them if you do not have a punishment?
It will be illegal but nothing will happen to them for having one...then they are not really illegal
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How were they illegal before? Don't recall scads of women in jail for getting abortions, do you?
That is why there was so many still happening.
Why do you not favor jailing women for having them if they are illegal?
Partly because I don't think it would be effective toward the most important goal here, ie. saving the lives of babies.
Partly because I think the vast majority of people are abysmally stupid and easily brainwashed, particularly when they're young.
I'll tell you a story. My husband was engaged prior to meeting me, back when he was in college. They were together for two years, and intended to get married right after they both graduated. His fiancee got pregnant. Neither of them had given a whole lot of deep, philosophical thought to the subject before, and she got all panicked and upset and decided to have an abortion, telling herself all the tripe she'd heard from the college culture around her about "not a baby yet, choice, don't let it ruin your life", etc.
Having the abortion actually DID ruin her life. She couldn't forget about it, couldn't move on, got to the point where she couldn't even bear to be around my husband because it reminded her. She broke off the engagement, dropped out of school . . . I just really don't see criminal prosecution on top of all of that as being at all productive or useful, for the women or for society.
The doctors, on the other hand, know exactly what they're doing. Not a damned one of them is the least bit deluded or brainwashed about it, because every damned greedy, heartless one of them received copious amounts of training about EXACTLY what is involved at every stage of the process. And they don't give a shit, and they're perfectly happy to lie about it to untrained, poorly-educated laymen in order to line their pockets.