Nor is allowing kids to be killed at 8 months, 29 days and 23 hours.
Except- somewhere in the country is a doctor that is dealing with a pregnant patient- maybe in an emergency situation- where the mother's health is dire- maybe even headed toward a disaster, that if a law was on the books like that- they would stand their ground and refuse to abort the fetus because of their moral belief that the baby's life was as important as the mother's up until it's too late for the mom- and probably both.
I am not saying that would be a lot of doctors. But I am saying there are some out there that extreme. It might not be but a few %- but if that few % were in charge of your daughter or your wife, it wouldn't matter how few there were.
Given only 0.02% of abortions are after 26 weeks (even less at 9 months) that is the concern.
The reason that is a concern is there are a small group of OBGYN physicians and ER doctors in the country that are on record as saying there is
never, ever any reason for an abortion. Now, this group is very small. They are very extreme. The great majority of physicians disagree with them in their belief.
But there are a few of them out there and if there is no law to protect these women from such doctors, some of us are concerned that these women could be put in an untenable situation by zealots that would take too much of a risk with the mother's life.
IF - IF- there was a proposed law that said
purely elective abortions were against the law after 24 or 26 weeks (or whatever in that realm), I would not oppose that type of law.
The concern would be that way "purely elective" was defined. Because there would be some extremists out there- maybe only a small handful that would say a woman who is clearly in severe distress, maybe even bleeding and going into severe medical distress that would still claim the pregnant woman was trying to have an elective abortion, instead of one to save her health or life.