The "abortion should be rare" argument is thinly veiled paternalism.

[LostOne4Ever]

107. I see abortion mainly as a clash of rights

To me, abortion is mainly a clash of rights. The right to the woman's autonomy, to her reproductive freedom, to her own body versus the rights of a fetus, that may or may not make it to term should no abortion occur, to continue to live.

In my mind, the woman's right to her own body takes priority. How can you have a right to live if you don't even has a right to your own life? So I always come down on the side of autonomy. Further, I feel that there is no guarentee the fetus will even make it to term or will survive the experience of being born either way. So its rights are limited. Either way, the woman right to her body takes priority.

That said, I still feel that the fetus life has some value. Enough value that if I were a pregnant young woman I "think" I would not choose to have an abortion. Hard to say for sure till you yourself are in that position though. But I believe it is also enough value that I would like abortion to be rare. I also think, like you said, that there are so many reason that a woman might want an abortion that it should easily accessible.

Yes, the proceedure is amoral. Yes it carries no specific risk of complications. But if it were possible to find a way to preserve the right of both the mother to her body and the fetus to live I would support that. If we could literally teleport the fetus out of the woman's body into an artifical womb without risking the life or health of the mother would that not be preferrable?

Similarly if we could find ways to help the woman avoid being in that situation in the first place, I think that is worth promoting.

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