Some Thoughts on Abortion

In all of the dialog about "pro-choice" and "pro-life", a subject I've not heard discussed is, what happens if abortion become illegal. Declaring an activity to be illegal may slow it down, but it doesn't mean the activity is going to stop. There are a lot of things that are illegal, from "Arson" to "Wife Beating" (I can't think of an illegal activity that begins with "X", "Y" or "Z"), but they happen all the time. So, not only do we make them illegal, we make them crimes and we punish people.
What's the punishment for abortion? Taking the pro-life arguments at face value, abortion is equivalent to premeditated murder, not only for the woman on whom the abortion is performed and the person performing the abortion, but for anyone who aided or abetted the abortion (e.g., the person who drove the woman to or from the abortion.) It wouldn't matter if the woman travelled to a jurisdiction where abortion was legal, since the unborn child, as a US citizen, is entitled to protection even if the murder took place outside the US. It probably wouldn't matter if the pregnancy was the result of rape or incest or if the physical or mental well-being of the mother was at stake.
I'm more than willing to assume that our Creator would not take lightly the taking of an unborn life, and I trust his judgement will be tempered with mercy. We humans should use caution in equating a "sin" with a "crime."