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It's medicine and morality as they should be applied to rule of law. You can't just make it medicine because medicine doesn't have conscience. Late term abortions put the mother at higher risk, and they come much closer to the moral boundary that everyone watches, birth. It's not an arbitrary line, but a line that represents what they think is the best decision based on both the science and the reasonable morality. Laws are, after all, based in reason and morality.
Are they right on this issue? I really can't tell you.
I've personally been back and fourth on the issue of abortion a few times. Generally I'm against it, but only because that in many cases it's about the loss of responsibility. In my mind, reproduction cannot be a right because parenting is a responsibility. If slutty Suzy decides that condoms just aren't her thing and has 3 kids between the ages of 17 and 20, then gets 3 abortions, that's a fundamental lifting of her responsibility to parent her offspring. What kind of a society doesn't give a shit about a parent's responsibility?
That being said, there are situations, rape, incest, retardation, failed contraceptives, that I can understand why people consider abortion.
I had a very good friend of mine consider it a year and some change back. It was a damn hard time for her. She had the kid, a wonderful, brilliant boy named Niki. She was victimized by her boyfriend who purposefully used poor contraceptives. It changed my perspective on the situation considerably.
I'm not one to follow the crowd. Just because I'm liberal by nature doesn't mean I'm going to swing liberal no matter what. I still feel that abortion is often wrong, especially considering how many wonderful people there are who want to adopt. BUT, I've learned to be more flexible on the subject.
I hope others can keep an open mind.
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