Certainly not! Laws are not retroactive. You can't decide today that driving a Hummer is illegal and arrest all the people who drove it yesterday. This is the problem with going back and deciding that waterboarding was illegal. You don't get to go back in time and make something illegal that was legal.

What would they be prosecuted for anyway? I am pro-life, but abortion is not legally murder if the abortion provider did not think the baby was technically alive. If you shoot what you think is a corpse and it turns out to be a person in a coma, you cannot be imprisoned for murder, but for other crimes related to desecrating a corpse and negligence. If Roe v. Wade is overturned, I'm sure only future abortion providers and aborting mothers would be prosecuted for procuring an abortion, but probably not for murder.

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