What I found most interesting is that British voters are concerned about the mother's mental health in making such decisions.
The chart (click here)
At various times (click here) some of the following have been allowed in some societies:
- abortion for the sake of the mother's health
- including her mental health
- abortion where a pregnancy is the result of a crime
- such as crimes like rape, incest, or child abuse
- abortion where the child of the pregnancy would have an ' unacceptable quality of life' such as cases where the child would have
- serious physical handicaps,
- serious genetic problems,
- serious mental defects
- abortion for social reasons, including:
- poverty,
- mother unable to cope with a child (or another child),
- mother being too young to cope with a child
- abortion as a matter of government policy (the government reasons are outrageous, lends itself to genocide, but, would explain the expression by Trump of "high quality families). Some of this stuff going on with the Trump administration is worrisome. I think his statements, policies and laws relate to a new social order. That is fatal stuff.
- as a way of regulating population size
- as a way of regulating groups within a population
- as a way of improving the population
Most opponents of abortion agree that abortion for the sake of the mother's health can be morally acceptable if there is a real risk of serious damage to the mother.
Abortion for social reasons is usually least acceptable to opponents.
