The thing is that there's exactly two reasons a woman usually (prrrrrretty much always) would choose a late-term abortion, which has somewhat changed my opinion on allowing them. Those are
a. Developmental issues showing up
b. Early abortion restrictions and lack of access to abortion meaning that the decision has to keep getting pushed until later or later because the woman in question can't transport herself or doesn't have the money or etc.
That's it. It's not people thinking "eh, I'll just wait." No. Pregnancy is
not pleasant. If you don't want to be pregnant, you shut that shit down as soon as possible, especially because abortions become more and more unpleasant and painful the later in the term they are. And similarly, because of this, forcing women to carry the fetus to term is not a zero-impact decision.
For example, a lot of women will, after having babies, experience Bell's palsy (partial paralyzation, often temporary) or lifelong sporadic incontinence (this is
most women--it may surprise you, but controlling this is another reason why people carry sanitary pads everywhere).
For those of us late to our lime party, I've been hostile because of Kingfisher's explanation that restrictions on menstrual products in the debating room were not a problem and, in fact, it was a pure and honorable sort of thing for the legislature to do.
I'm scared of this practice becoming standard. I no longer trust the federal government to intervene on the behalf of women who are in the process of being disenfranchised; I don't think anyone will say anything about the illegal revote, or the attempts to keep women out of it. I would not be surprised if this tactic became a trend, because as we've discovered here, it seems so
reasonable. And it taps into a lot of conditioning women have had in this country, being told that we're dirty and unclean and desperately need to hide that filthiness. Everyone's taught not to pee their beds or their clothes, and then almost immediately after children get that, girls start menstruating.
This is only the beginning.