It’s invented law, as most law is. There’s no heavenly mandate that identifies the rules of abortion. When is it legal? When is it moral? Whose body is it? Well, there are two bodies. One cannot exist without the other until perhaps five months or so into the pregnancy. In another real world example it’s impossible for a woman to be pregnant and to abort. Despite the idea of Schrodinger’s Cat that there exist two different states that are simultaneously true, a woman cannot be pregnant and not-pregnant. In quantum computing the phrase “cat state” sometimes refers to the GHZ state, wherein several qubits are in an equal superposition of all being 0 and all being 1; e.g., 
The application to pregnancy would require both pregnancy and non-pregnancy. That’s an impossibility. Abortion is the action to eliminate a pregnancy. Abortion is neither pregnancy nor non-pregnancy. At a certain point in an abortion a pregnancy is stopped. The culture has to deal with abortion but so far it hasn’t, at least not successfully. Since abortion first requires a pregnancy, the rules have to consider pregnancy as a requirement for an abortion. The rules aren’t known. Roe v Wade used the idea, not of a pregnancy nor an abortion but of privacy to make an end run around the issue. Most likely the present 6 man 3 woman Supreme Court will invent an issue to get what it wants in the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case which limits abortions to the first 15 weeks compared to the 24 weeks most often used. Want some food for thought? Full term pregnancies can result in a still-born fetus even after 40 weeks. Nature seems to have set the limit for abortion at 40 weeks. Where should it be? How should it be found? It would be great if there was an answer but for now there’s none.
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