Well this is why I’m trying to separate the legal from the moral. I want to suggest that it might possibly still be immoral to abort a child even if it is (and should be) legal.
I take your point about cultures not having rights to encroach on a woman’s body. Indeed. Societies inevitably encroach on our minds though don’t they? Older societies might coerce a woman to abort a girl; our own is more likely to idolise health and beauty to such an extent that no coercion is necessary. If the child has Down Syndrome or has dwarfism …well we know what happens. I think that is just as dysfunctional.
