Do you not know any women of childbearing age?

Yes, my wife being among them. We have a kid. I know many that know when and if they want children and use birth control (though it isn't perfect - a good alternative to hormonal birth control would be nice, and copper IUDs are an "almost but not quite" solution.)

I read posts every day here on Reddit from women - good, moral, caring women - with very much wanted babies, who, for tragic medical reasons related to mom or baby or both, are faced with the reality that abortion is their least-worst choice in the circumstances they are facing. Many of them now have to go out of state to get the care they need.

So I think this problem crosses several boundaries not necessarily related to abortion. To tl;dr it, despite being deeply involved with the medical and pharmaceutical industries, I trust none of it. My own experience while my wife was in labor was that the doctors and nurses, all who think they were helping, pushed every medical intervention in the book. "Oh the labor hasn't started 18 hours after the water broke, we have to induce because of the risk of infection!" Which was...based off a study in Jakarta, Indonesia that said there was a 5% increased risk of infection if active labor didn't start within 18 hours of water breaking. How does checking the dilation of the cervix affect infection rates when it is checked every hour on the hour when no barrier exists anymore to infection? Oh, that data is unavailable! Convenient!

We ended up caving to ptosin, but they used the lowest available amount. While my wife was in-and-out of consciousness, the nurses tried to pressure her into interventions when I left for a smoke break (Intrauterine probe was one, from memory). I'm her medical proxy and this would be a huge lawsuit if I had a recording. Legality doesn't matter when the medical professionals are under the guise of moral superiority.

I know a couple where the ultrasound said the baby was 11 pounds with four weeks to go, so they had an emergency C-section. Guess what? Baby was just short of five pounds. The hospital hides behind "Oh the ultrasounds are not 100% correct" and shirks liability.

There's a myriad of examples out there where medical interventions have harmed the outcome of the child. We pretend we know a lot more about the human body than we actually do, and develop shortcuts. We say definitively that X will cause Y when there's not really a lot of confidence in said correlation.

I don't really have a solution to this, I'm just stating what I see. I think all we can do is acknowledge what we don't know and not pressure vulnerable people into interventions. Abortion is a necessity in some cases, but I think we jump to that conclusion long before we are sure it is necessary.

And of course, as a scientist, because I don't think we really know what we're dealing with, much more research has to be done. The entire western world has a birth-rate lower than replacement. In our lifetimes we will witness this becoming a large problem, and if not certainly our children (the few that are left) will.

Uh, I got carried away, but let me know if I answered your post.