All these "tough talking," conservative men on here screaming about abortion and how it "kills babies" or "liberals want to get abortions at any stage of pregnancy" need to just shut the hell up. Not only is their ignorance showing, but their gullibility to right-wing propaganda as well.
First off, the SCOTUS decision back 49 years ago SPECIFICALLY states the age of viability is the limit, ACCEPT in cases where the life of the mother is at risk or the baby is going to die before or shortly after birth.
No one, LITERALLY NO ONE is "killing babies" as they give birth. But women who are at risk of carrying a dead fetus inside them because of a fatal developmental defect in the child are saving their own lives in the 3rd trimester instead of carrying a fucking corpse to term.
Secondly, "viability" is a medical term associated with the fetus having a 50/50 chance or better of being born alive. Because the brainstem doesn't even actach to the developing brain until week 22-24, nearly all babies birthed before die. Hence why, for decades, viability was pegged at week 24 and abortions allowed before that point.
Thirdly, until that brainstem is attached, that fetus isn't a person, it's a lump of cells. Practically no different than a brain dead patient hooked up to life support. There is no brain activity. There are no thoughts or awareness that it's even alive. There are no brain wave patterns. It's just a lump of cells on auto-pilot.
So NO, it's NOT a person, NO ONE is being "killed." It's a parasitic growth on the women, whose body it has commidered for its purposes, and can be removed at her discretion and solely by her choice because SHE'S THE ONLY ONE AFFECTED BY IT. And if you don't understand how pregnancy and birth permanently, negatively alter a woman's body and cause help effects for the rest of her life, or how 1 in 3 women have miscarriages (which most anti-abortion laws punish), or how common fatal birth defects are, please don't ever sick your dick in them and reproduce. You're not mature, knowledgeable, or caring enough to do so.