I’m not going to go into whether it should be legal or not. I generally hear of three exceptions when lawmakers try to limit abortion, and they are in cases of rape, incest, or when the woman’s life is endangered.

There is one exception that is missing, and I think it’s the most crucial one of all. There is no proposed exception for when the fetus is nonviable.

This is the thing that tells me whether we’re dealing with a secular argument or a religious one. If you’re going to force a woman to carry out a pregnancy, that’s a lot of pain and trouble for the woman. It has to be of benefit to someone. And if the fetus is forming without a brain, it doesn’t benefit anyone to carry out the pregnancy: not the woman, not society, not the fetus. Best case is you end up with a dead fetus anyways, but in the meantime it’s caused the woman additional days/weeks of discomfort, and it’s cost taxpayers more to pay for the additional care. And in the worst case, well, this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/19/savita-halappanavar-death-pro-life-abortion.

Laws protect people. Don’t make living people suffer for nothing.