You're trying to take the discussion to a higher level but how can all the exceptions to a rule ever be covered in a conversation on this board?
I think you would fit in with Canada's approach to abortion. Briefly, we understand there will always be a need but we try to apply social remedies to eliminating most of the need.
We don't accept back alley knitting needles as the answer.
The OP, as is obvious, has no intention to discuss the issue of abortion, and much less doesn't care.
Your proposition is about as middle ground as they come and is reasonable. The problem in the U.S. is the narratives espoused by both sides of the coin.
Some spout that Republicans don't care about women's bodies and would force a raped 12 year old carry the baby. First, it's illogical to group every republican into that camp just as it is illogical to put every democrat into the same camp as someone who would rip apart a baby at 8 months. There are those that probably would advocate for both on both sides, but those people are the extreme and represent a very small percentage. But the narrative that is presented are those extremes.
However there is a middle ground, where emotions are put in check and logical discourse happen.
Here are my middle ground points:
Pregnancy should never be portrayed as a disease or virus that a woman didn't plan on having and is in need of a cure. That is how I see someone women portray abortions.
Other than the young and innocent, we all know how a woman can become pregnant. The consequence of sex can be pregnancy.
When consensual intercourse takes place (assuming both parties are of sound mature minds), both male and female fully understand the potential result.
Both parties prior to consensual sex have choices they can make prior to sex or during sex that can avoid almost fully, the chance of pregrnancy.
Those choices are NOT the ones that we hear from the media or politicians.
Make the choice, if no protection isn't present, to not have sex
Engage in other forms of sexual pleasure; oral, anal, handjobs, I don't care. There are plenty of ways to get off without stickin' it in.
And maybe, make the choice to not have sex, if you aren't mature enough to take precautions.
Abortion should be the Last choice in this matter.
For rape, the life of the mother, and if the parents choose because of sever birth defects, I can see justification.
Abortion as a form of birth control for irresponsible adults should be minimized. I don't know how this is accomplished, but we have to do better.
As humans, we can do better.
We can be better than our animal instincts
Oh, and men, you are JUST AS CULPABLE as women, and in some cases, probably more so through coersion and sexual/emotional manipulation. Men should be just as accountable for abortions and help pay the costs.
We can value the importance of human reproduction more than one's WAP or getting our rocks off (and trust me, I like getting my rocks off. I'm not some stodgy old man, but I've known how to not get a woman pregnant and so has my wife).
We have valued our own sexual desires more than the miracle of life.
