I saw a post the other day – I’m sorry I can’t remember the author – which bemoaned this new Supreme Court justice in the USA, who I’ve also heard describes as ultra-conservative. One of their beefs was that abortion would become more restricted.
Let me tell you what happened in Ireland.
For years, Ireland banned abortion. It was only made legal – following a staggeringly one-sided referendum in 2018. Even now, it is not particularly “available”. But the result of abortion being banned was that rich people travelled to England to have their abortions, where it has been legal since the late 1960s. Poor people, being unable to afford the transport cost, had to stay home and have their babies.
If you restrict abortion in the USA, rich people will go out-of-state, or disappear to Mexico or especially Canada for a few days, and still get their abortions. Poor people will not be able to travel and will end up having unwanted babies.
Make no mistake, this is about penalising poverty, not choice.
Mister Bump 
You are absolutely correct. I suspect many of the anti-abortion protestors have no clue about the consequences of what they are advocating.
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Exactly. And where are those people when the cost of raising a child for at least 18 years overwhelms the parent, or they mentally can’t handle it? In their homes refusing welfare benefits to the poor.
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I think the thing for me is that if you make rules, and people don’t like them, then the world is a big enough place that they will sidestep them. So not abortion, per se. I mean, look at Amazon and Starbucks and their taxes. They pay very little here, I presume it’s the same there.
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I don’t think well over stop big business from being that way. It got out of hand. The land of good and plenty is for the rich
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You are correct. The concern for me is the return of back street abortionists, which is where the poor are likely to turn.
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People will inevitably offer “solutiuons” for those unable to travel. That’s another thing – by restricting you are deregulating – anything goes. It’s like the argument that legalising drugs would make the quality better.
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