No 1967 Abortion Act

Assume said act (in British law) had never been passed, and as an optional extra, no subsequent legislation (or at least not until the last year or two) passed legalising abortion.

What effects does it have on society, and is it better or worse off as a result?

For example:

-does it just create an increased demand for 'back-street' abortions?
-effect on sexually permissive society?
-standing of Britain in the international community?
-effect on kids being born, and wider effect on society?
-moral implications?
-flamewar in OTL? :eek::rolleyes:
 

Hendryk

Banned
More sordid tragedies take place, until sometime in the 1970s the public decides it can't take any more stories about teenage girls haemorraging to death after botched abortions and survivors facing court trial. That's the way it played out in France, until abortion was legalized in 1975.
 
Could the courts have decided the issue in the UK like they did in the USA? I believe the major reason abortion remains so controversial in the US is because the change was not legislated, but mandated by the supreme court. Many states were enacting laws to legalize or limit restrictions on abortion and I am pretty much convinced that, in the political climate of the late 1960's and early 70's the USA would also have passed a federal law liberalizing abortion rights - with minimal controversy.
 
Assume said act (in British law) had never been passed, and as an optional extra, no subsequent legislation (or at least not until the last year or two) passed legalising abortion.

What effects does it have on society, and is it better or worse off as a result?

For example:

-does it just create an increased demand for 'back-street' abortions?
-effect on sexually permissive society?
-standing of Britain in the international community?
-effect on kids being born, and wider effect on society?
-moral implications?
-flamewar in OTL? :eek::rolleyes:

Much as if homosexuality were never decriminalised (not that I'm comparing the two in any other way), it'd criminalise what goes on anyway but just make alot more people far more unhappy in the process.
 
Freakonomics said abortion where more popular when the mother can't take care of the children. And children growing up like that are less likely to turn out well behaved.
 
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