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Here's a thought: why not approach requests for pregnancy terminations from the perspective of self-defense; if a pregnancy results from rape, a woman/female has the right to immediately terminate that pregnancy since it increases her mortality risk; if an underaged child is impregnated, the parents of the minor child have a right, in the pregnant child's interest, to terminate the pregnancy; if a pregnancy is threatening to kill the mother, she has a right to termiante that pregnancy; but, in adopting this perspective, the alive unborn child also has a right to life support by whatever means the medical community and/or the state may bring to bear.

Such a perspective would make it important to investigate means to provide life support for the unborn, including possible legislation that requires any termination of pregnancy not done in the eight weeks of pregnancy to continue until the alive unborn may be delivered and sustained by existing science. When the ability to give life support to those alive unborn prior to the twenty fourth week age become feasible, the age of termination for the pregnancy may be moved also.