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No sensible person is “pro abortion” - the question is really who makes the ultimate decision: the woman (in consultation with her doctors) or the legislature. Any attempt to frustrate or remove her access to an abortion within those 24 weeks appears to me to simply have the whiff of misplaced paternalism; it implies that the woman does not know her own mind.
And, by implication, any decision to seek advice or counselling is also for the woman alone; it is illiberal for a woman to be obliged or expected to take advice or receive counselling, should she elect to terminate her pregnancy; again, any such obligation or expectation implies that the woman does not know her own mind.
Jack of Kent: Some general thoughts on abortion