I think you’re throwing the baby out with the bathwater then.
Laws I’ve heard on this require the rape to be proven in the court of law.
I’m not too knowledgeable about the language of rape exceptions in many states. My state is pretty liberal, so that’s not something I have in my state. I, along with others, think a good alternative could be that any woman who had a rape kit, or reported a rape (which I believe is the law in some states?). I’d even go 1 step further, I’d say that any woman that claims the baby is a result of rape, is allowed to have an abortion (up to some, fairly liberal point in the pregnancy, say 20 weeks for examples).
Exceptions for medical complications are also very hard to legislate because you have to decide when is the woman dying enough to be able to save her life.
I agree, it’s a tough line! if there’s a 1% chance, is that high enough? 2%? 20%?
A lot of law says ‘reasonable persons’ - I think if a reasonable person would think there would be a high enough threshold of risk to the mothers health, that’s fine. It’s up to a jury of her peers, and court precedence. Many items in our law have these as gauges of what’s ‘reasonable.’
Third, I’ve only seen one state that allowed an exception for nonviability of a fetus. In all the other states I’ve seen, women have to carry doomed fetuses who will die shortly after birth. I can’t imagine the trauma of that. Isn’t it more merciful to allow those women to abort?
I don’t know enough about the states laws, that sounds wrong to me, but maybe it’s right. I disagree with that, if the baby is already dead, there’s no reason for a woman to endure the pregnancy further.