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    His point is in many situations there won't be a doctor to revoke a license of.

And there would be no punishment in those situations. I don't see how that's a point. Making abortion illegal isn't about finding literally every case and preventing it at all costs, it's about generally discouraging and making the statement that "you should not do this", and making it as feasibly difficult for abortion to happen as you can while still being within reason.

    nothing in history suggests that the number will go down because it's dangerous.

Do we even have a comprehensive history of the rates of people getting abortions in the past if it were ever legal/illegal? If not, than what's the backing for this claim?

    Deciding to terminate a pregnancy really isn't the same as putting magnets in your fingers. Like not even remotely.

I'm not saying they are similar, I'm using it as an example of "people will do stupid and potentially deadly and life threatening things for petty reasons, so they'll almost certainly give themselves abortions for much more severe reasons". Are you even reading my damn post?