Specifically, to declaring all women with just cause for abortion legally incompetent, and abortion doctors accomplices to murder. The latter is why a Sheriff candidate from a certain party says it is OK to kill them regardless of the law.

The moral systems where people are not obliged to accept burdens from a possible being with reasonable doubt it is a being and no way to be sure. In your analogy there is no such reason to doubt the voice is a person in the well, and verifying it is/not is easy. The crux of Roe is that we cannot know the fetal state but manifestly know the womans. Thus the latter has priority and, even did it not, sole discretion to decide the former.


Counterpoint: Death or serious injury to the mother, unless you concede that exception under "triage."


How does your false dichotomy justify irritation with me? If unwanted pregnancys trauma destroys legal competence, everyone is incompetent to make any serious medical decision for themselves or family. A mother with a critically ill child is competent to decide treatment, but a possible mother too stressed for competence to decide whether to end the pregnancy? In terms of letting those with comptence the woman lacks decide, no law requires any doctor perform an abortion, so all doctors may be that other person (Does health exception effectively requires it.) In fact, in terms of competence itself, guess who decides THAT: Doctors.


There is no ethical conundrum, because the doctor not only can but must decide whether to perform the abortion whatever the woman wants for whatever reason. The doctor is also more capable of determining her mental state than anyone not medically trained, largely eliminating that concern. That concern is not great in the first place, because the trauma of unwanted pregancy does not automatically make her incompetent any more than the trauma of a gunshot wound or cancer would. Ignoring all that to say her mere desire for abortion makes her legally incompetent to decide on it, and the doctor thus criminal in performing it, is just bad logic.

However (and despite your deleting that part,) calling fetuses beings illegal to kill, and doctors accountable for doing so, is also dangerous, because it legally permits all efforts necessary to prevent the illegal killing. Calling abortion murder the law cannot prevent declares open season on abortion doctors. If abortion is murder, the law cannot prevent it, anyone physically impeding it is arrested and there is no other way to prevent a doctor on his way into his office murdering babies once inside, killing him is justifiable homicide. That is where your argument inexorably leads, has led countless times. That is a terminus, not tangent.