I mentioned the debate about which criminal statutes would be used to prosecute those who obtain illegal abortions if ROE should be over turned. STR.ORG has a very lively debate going over the issue.
Christopher posted a comment recently on the debate.
 
I think it proper to try to clarify my reason for drawing attention to the issue in the first place.
I'm not a legal scholar, so I can by no means speak in a definitive way on the subject. Having said that, it seems to me that abortion will then largely revert back to state statutes. ROE effectively nullified state statutes that were specific to abortion, but whether any given state repealed their statutes on abortion or not could be critical to how a state would prosecute such cases. Here again let me emphasize that I'm not sure exactly how a given state'sattorney generals office would proceed, and that's precisely the problem.
If for instance California has repealed their abortion specific statutes, then abortion ( COULD) possibly be viewed as 1st degree homocide with special circumstances.
My problem with this matter isn't that I don't belive that abortion shouldn't be illegal, because I do. However, we as a society (speaking corporately) have been promoting abortion as legal and even as really no more than any other medical procedure such as dental work, for over 30 years. It has been promoted in schools, in the courts, by presidents ('legal but rare': Bill Clinton) and political candidates and even both major parties.  It seems to me that we would be obligated to go back through those same channels, (school programs etc.) and explain that abortion is no longer legal, plus impress upon everyone what the ramifications would be under whatever state statutes might be in place.
My first priority would be to advise pro-life legal organizations to review what the state of their current state's statutes are regarding abortion. Perhaps have the state attorney generals office write an opinion regarding the legal ramifications of overturning ROE specific to how the current statutes would be applied to illegal abortion.
Next, we as viewing life as sacred, I'm speaking to Christian Citizens, should be well prepared with legislation as well as cultural arguments to support our pro-life position. Just because ROE is over turned doesn't spell the end of legal abortion on demand, it will likely just shift the fight to the state level. Now that I think of it, I'm sure the ACLU is already working overtime 'shopping judges' at both the state and Federal level in the lower courts to chalange abortion laws with a barage of legal challenges. The only effective way to stop it ,at the Federal level at least, is for Congress too strip the lower courts of jurisdiction regarding state abortion laws; hey Christian fence sitters!?, still think it's OK to sit out elections because we have to 'settle for the lesser of two evils'? Just look in the scripture and then in the mirror. I believe scripture says that we all fall short of the glory of God. The fight only began when ROE was decided, I doubt that it will end if ROE, BOLTON etc. are over turned.
Don't forget who the real enemy is and on what level we must fight him.