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If you were a legislator in one of these states, freed from the Federal restraints of Roe vs Wade, to what extent would you vote to protect unborn babies and pregnant mothers in your state?

I would copy how the left does it. Start out by getting your foot in the door with something that's hard to argue against, infanticide and partial birth abortion would be my picks.

Showing films of this stuff going on in ads leading up to going public with legislation would almost guarantee public support.

Then move up from there. Accomplish the wish list one piece at a time.

But enforcement of any regulation will be ugly. You'll have to have some way to question a doctor's diagnosis if you allow for exceptions. A review panel? (Sound familiar?)

Otherwise, leftist doctor's will make everyone woman fit in the exception category.

I think that's, in part, the way the pro-life laws were enforced in the 50 states say 45 years ago, before Roe vs Wade. If a mother had a true life-threatening condition (I'm thinking, pulmonary hypertension with right heart failure in mid-pregnancy) you couldn't just say, "Well, I want this pregnancy terminated."

The hospital would convene a panel that includes maybe a high-risk-pregnancy expert, an ethicist, the neonatal ICU people, and they'd make a determination of what the options are.

If you can imagine a graph with the X-axis representing the weeks of pregnancy and the Y-axis representing mortality risk, with a red line representing the baby and the blue line the mother, you can visualize that as the weeks go on, the mother's risk line goes up and the baby's risk line goes down.

Wherever the red and the blue lines cross, that's where you do the C-section to try to save them both.

It's not a precise, mahematical-type determination. It's that, conceptually, everybdyu has to try to save both lives if they can. If they can only save one, they fully commit to saving the one (usually the mother.)

If it is IMPOSSIBLE to save the baby's life, --- well, nothing that is strictly impossible, can be morally obligatory.

But you still trat the baby respefully, as a dying baby. You deliver him whole, you trat him with whatever care you can offer, even if he only lives minutes. You don't go in and dismember him and haul him out in bloody chunks.