Hmm. I think we're having a fundamental misunderstanding from the start.
What I don't understand is the position that even if the fetus is a person, the right to abortion trumps any and all rights that person would have.
I understand why women would want an abortion. The same reasons, like the ones you cited above. But if we're talking about ending the lives of human persons, does that change anything? Or doesn't it?
Though it doesn't have a specific starting point, officially speaking: personhood (to me) begins when the mother chooses to KEEP that unborn child.
If she chooses from day 1 that she's going to have the baby - then that's when she grants personhood to her child. That's the holy-matra of motherhood: creating offspring and giving them a place in the world and that come with significant authority and responsibility that no state (government) can override.
Of course - my view isn't carte blanche...
I believe that there is a cut-off point at which she forfeits her right to grant personhood and it's automatically granted (for lack of a better wording on the concept). I don't support late-term abortions, only first trimester abortions. 3 months, in my view, is plenty sufficient for a woman to A) realize she's pregnant, B) decide what she will do, C) see to what's necessary. After that point she has simply accepted the status of pregnancy save for extreme circumstances such as health issues.
Of course, I support that + the concept of having a waiting-limit before abortions.
In essence: I do not support walk-in quick turn-around abortions if things have progressed past a certain point (where the unborn is developing past the earliest stages of cellular division.)
I also do not support the idea of repeat-abortions. All rights, in my view, are amendable by governing authorities. If rights are abused they can be ended. We deal the death penalty and even starve disabled people (legally) to death . . . ergo I view that the right to chose comes with such considerations as well. I think women who fail to be proactively involved in reproductive health care and use abortions as birth control on a frequent and routine basis should be brought up on charges (such a thing doesn't really exist - but it should). And in the same manner I believe that people who have an excess of children they cannot support (sizable families with no effort to prevent pregnancy - reliance on the state for support - etc) should be a crime, as well.
So my pro-choice views come with a lot of other opinions on parenting and conception that even pro-lifers wouldn't get behind.
I support giving people the ability to govern their life to IMPROVE their life.
But if they abuse this ability and privileges therein they should lose the right to do so.
[Obviously the old adage of 'they'll get them in filthy back alleys anyway so why not' isn't why I am pro-choice].
