murat May 6, 2012, 02:35:55

Whether abortion sholud be legal or not depends on how much power you want to give to the state to stop it with the criminal law. The law can endorse stopping abortion without actually banning it by funding families adequately, with extra support for Downs Syndrome children and emancipation and paid education for both parents when teens get pregnant. Do all that, and elective abortion will be so rare that facilities will be unavailable.Encouraging firms to fund longevity through stock ownership rather than wages and to have the tax system backstop education, child care and child income benefits does most of the job.OK with banning non-medically essential abortion after assisted viability, however equal protection under law problems makes banning abortion before that point legally tenuous, as then the state must investigate every miscarriage and malpractice insurers must pay off every family who has one in order to forestall lawsuits (which are cheaper than taking any such case to trial, even those without merit which would have doctors stop seeing expectant mothers before 22 weeks hardly good for the whole and society is right to balance their interests with those whose parents chose abortion, even after tax benefits make most abortion rare).