With respect to abortion - when Roe was decided, the pill was new and birth control was unreliable. Today that is not the case and the decision as to whether or not you want to have a child should be made before you engage in the act that produces it. That said, I believe as a practical matter discretionary abortion should be legal up to 12 or 15 weeks as most European counties have decided. Women have always had abortions and outlawing it will not stop it. There should also be exceptions for gross abnormality of the fetus and life (not health - too ambiguous) of the mother. Many also support exceptions for rape or incest, but those circumstances account for maybe only 1% of all abortions. Reducing the opportunity for discretionary abortions would send a message.
Who bears the cost of that message? How about mandatory reversible vasectomies? That would eliminate most abortions. Men can bear whatever costs upfront.
With respect to abortion - when Roe was decided, the pill was new and birth control was unreliable. Today that is not the case and the decision as to whether or not you want to have a child should be made before you engage in the act that produces it. That said, I believe as a practical matter discretionary abortion should be legal up to 12 or 15 weeks as most European counties have decided. Women have always had abortions and outlawing it will not stop it. There should also be exceptions for gross abnormality of the fetus and life (not health - too ambiguous) of the mother. Many also support exceptions for rape or incest, but those circumstances account for maybe only 1% of all abortions. Reducing the opportunity for discretionary abortions would send a message.
Who bears the cost of that message? How about mandatory reversible vasectomies? That would eliminate most abortions. Men can bear whatever costs upfront.