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Incentivizes a black market, but this isn't drugs where you can make them in your backyard. At some point the risk of dying due to botched backyard surgery is going to be far more severe than the benefit of an abortion.

I'm not anti-abortion at all, I think government has little place in enforcing rules unless it shows direct and countable harm to larger society. Murder destroys a human being, a child is little more than a bundle of flesh we project empathy onto, little more valuable than any of the thousands of animals with just as complex lives that we kill millions of every month. There is some expectation of empathy, of course, for anything that is human. Society is slowly trying to bake that out of us by saying "unborn children aren't babies".

Honestly, I think they are human beings, and people are tying themselves in a knot to get around a truth they dislike. On a societal level, they are part of making a cold and calculated decision in allowing abortion to become popular and normalized.

They truly do value the woman's health than a human life. Which is fine, but breaks that expectation of empathy that does a lot of work to tie society together, which is not fine to most. Regardless, I do support abortion fully.