This debate has also become tangential to the issue. As a reminder, what you, I, or the next person thinks about abortion is irrelevant. Our moral positions shouldn’t be making the decision. What makes a court, or you and I, more qualified to decide for someone else what they should do? That’s the crux of the issue. Not what each of us think about abortion itself.
I’ve already set out my stall on abortion. I’m personally against it. The idea of an abortion in the third trimester sends shivers down my back. I have exceptions to this - such as rape. Incest. And a medical requirement to abort. I have no objection in any way to an abortion at any stage of pregnancy in those scenarios. Because the psychological impacts of those things don’t always manifest immediately and if they do, even at 8 months, then I would completely understand why one might abort then.
If I was the supreme leader of a world where I had to make all decisions, me personally, apart from those exemptions above, would probably make getting an abortion difficult after a fetus could be viable alone. So approx. 5 and a half months. Because there’s other options than aborting at that stage.
But I’m not and neither are we and neither should be the Supreme Court. And so, in this world, the way it should be is that it should be between the woman and medical professionals. It just shouldn’t be something that is dictated by others, period.