This abortion debate is going nowhere...you are totally disregarding what’s best for the mother!
I have had an abortion. The result was a dead baby and infertility. Abortion is never what’s best for the mother.
“you are totally disregarding what’s best for the mother!”
Well, what is “best for the mother” is arguable. Having a clean conscience and not murdering her own offspring may in fact be better for the mother than what she might want to do in the heat of the moment when she has just suffered a trauma.
But I would counter also that you are completely disregarding what is best for the child, as there is no logical argument that death is in general better than life, since anyone that argues such a thing would be quickly diagnosed with some mental disorder.
So if there is in fact a direct conflict between what is “best for the mother” and “best for the child”, it must be resolved, and those kinds of conflicts, where the rights of individuals collide are generally resolved based on certain well understood principles. One of the key ones is “choose the alternative which does the least harm to both parties”. In this case, abortion is ruled out, since one party is permanently harmed in an irreparable way, while without abortion, the party that might claim harm cannot claim either permanent or irreparable harm.