Fruitbat - I get what you're saying. But the discussion in this thread is about women's ability to
choose abortion, and whether or not the state has the right to prevent her from doing so based on its own definition of the foetus she is carrying and the equivalency of its life to hers. If a mother chooses to risk her own life to bring a foetus to term, however I or anyone else may feel about the logic of that decision, it's her choice. That's the whole point here.
So personally, I feel that within the context of this thread, that point's not strictly relevant to the debate at hand. This debate is about the state's right to choose
for women; to outright
tell them, "This is the value of your life as opposed to the life you're carrying, and no, you don't get a say in that."
For example,
this poor woman did not lack mothering instincts; and indeed, her story only shows how the state is actually attempting to weaponize such instincts against women who aren't having abortions for "slutty" reasons (even by their narrow and religiously-oriented definition of such). Maternal instincts are, therefore, beside the point here.