One law can prevent thousands of babies dying per day.
I disagree—this is not known. Particularly the magnitude of the expected effect is hard to predict and a cost-benefit analysis requires a prediction.
The law would affect conception rates as well as birthrates, and we don’t know how ahead of time.
It would also affect rates of unwanted babies born and given up for adoption or raised in unloving or too-poor or single-mother homes. These factors affect life expectancy (also through hightened poverty and crime), which have moral weight by the “biological human life” criterion.
Some women would still do illegal or at-home or out-of-state abortions. Some of the women would also die or be injured thereby.
Enforcement of the law costs money and resources and also depends on cultural support for the law in each community.
I disagree—this is not known. Particularly the magnitude of the expected effect is hard to predict and a cost-benefit analysis requires a prediction.
The law would affect conception rates as well as birthrates, and we don’t know how ahead of time.
It would also affect rates of unwanted babies born and given up for adoption or raised in unloving or too-poor or single-mother homes. These factors affect life expectancy (also through hightened poverty and crime), which have moral weight by the “biological human life” criterion.
Some women would still do illegal or at-home or out-of-state abortions. Some of the women would also die or be injured thereby.
Enforcement of the law costs money and resources and also depends on cultural support for the law in each community.