Racecardriver Sun 23-Dec-18 09:31:40

@PerryPerry but you could say the same for women that kill their children. The interests of the woman and the interests of the feotus are geberally in competition where abortion is concerned. The question isn’t whether women have good reasons for abortions. The question is at what point do the feotus’ interests have equal value to the pregnant woman’s. A good intellectual line in the sand is giving women the right to bodily autonomy and feotuses the right to life. However the potential result of this is that women have the right to choose to induce labour early resulting in premature birth and a damaged and unwanted child that will be a burden on the state. To avoid this some suggest giving women the right to kill a feotus (abortion to term) while others suggest limiting abortion to before a stage in development when the feotus can survive independently (thus attempting to balance a woman’s right to bodily autonomy with not actively killing or damaging (through very premature birth) feotuses. But it is incredibly naive to use women’s good judgement to justify abortion to term because sadly not everyone is a good person and not everyone will make a good decision.