If you were conceived in a womb that was going to abort you would you rather it be done right away or would you rather cling to life a few more months and be a late term abortion?
Seeing that we're all in this together and share responsibility it is unlikely that any of us will get through it without this happening to us at least a couple of times.
I'm wondering what the value of a ban on late term abortions?
Eh. Probably irrelevant, from the perspective of myself. Pretty much no fetus that might possibly be aborted has any useful brain function, so I wouldn't know the difference. Once you start getting to the viability line, they'll do a C-section or a labor before they'll do an abortion.
There's no meaningful brain function until about 24 weeks (none whatsoever before 21 or so), and even that is very irregular and incapable of conveying any sense of experience to the fetus. That's one of the challenges for super premies actually: they can't get any proper rest to help them recover, because their brain doesn't even know how to sleep (or breathe, or swallow...). Full brain function isn't there until about 35 weeks. They'll be doing a C-section for that kind of gestational age, in some cases even if the fetus isn't viable -- as an emergency procedure, a C-section is safer for the woman, once the fetus is that large.
So if I was said fetus, it makes no difference from my end. But for the sake of the woman, earlier is better. Less strain on the body, less risk of complication.
The value of the ban? None. All it does is put red tape in front of women having medical crises, making it more likely that they'll die while they're waiting for some stuffed shirt to sign the paperwork.
Women don't wait 7 months to abort a pregnancy they never wanted. They're usually forced to by medical circumstance. Or sometimes, they choose it as a more merciful course of action for a devastatingly or mortally disfigured fetus. America has just as many late-term abortions as Canada, where this is no restriction, and that is the reason why. Late-term abortions aren't something women get for fun.
Making them ridiculously hard to get just puts women's lives at risk.