I'm cool with abortions, even late-term. If the parent can't or doesn't want to be a parent, then this child is ####ed from the beginning, because I believe there are crucial formative bonding moments between mother and child when the child is out that can dramatically form behavioral patterns and emotions. Kids need that, blood mother or otherwise.
I'd be down for late-term abortions to go through a foster parent matching program first though, to see if there are any folks who would want to adopt a newborn (for various reasons of their own), and the aborting parent is cool with it (pending no health complications). Since I'm not a parent, not sure if that already exists. However, I wouldn't stand in the way of aborting late-term either.
The heartbeat thing doesn't really do it for me, that's just an emotional vice because you can hear it. Maybe the brain is a better measure to go by if we're going to pick organs to get political over.
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