Pro education and knowledge.
We don't force parents to have medical procedures that may save the lives of their children, we (usually) can't even force dead people to give up body parts to keep other humans alive and well. In regards to health and medicine respect for personal autonomy is very important for many good reasons. Like many species we are adapted to be bias towards babies and children, just the idea of them is enough. Involves a lot of projection mind you. Nothing wrong with this either, the opposite in fact, I am glad most people have a natural disposition that makes them fiercely defensive and protective of young children, infants, babies, unborn children. Its just that this tends to wear off once people are actually born and start getting older, to the point of becoming a negative. People suck at questioning themselves and its always been easier too believe something than understand something. Add in our brains are generally adapted to think about things in the first hand rather than how things work in larger groups and societies and a disparity emerges as far as perceptions about things and how things actually are. Consent to sex is not consent to having a child, and although it can be natural consequence and many of us know this, many people do not, or they have a poor understanding of safe sexual practices or understanding of long term consequences from actions. Its easy to talk about responsibility in a bubble, but much harder to understand how things play out in reality.
So whilst we don't want to create a situation where people can have abortions every single week like its getting the car washed, thats never going to actually happen. A fetus depends on its mother and in a way that can't be substituted (a born child is also dependent on a mother, but this role can be substituted) so its not even just about a choice but about personal autonomy. Similar and different conceptually to why doctors can't pick you off the street and distribute one healthy persons organs across five other patients who could live with those organs. 1 life or 5? Why not save five? Except life isn't just about trying to save as many lives as possible all the time, this would incidentally be counter productive since people would avoid health professionals and doctors for the risk of having organs harvested. Also incidentally a similar trend results in abortion rates being higher in staunchly pro life countries because of abortion/birth control/contraception being vilified and or sex education lacking. Leading to more abortions that are unregulated and dangerous.
Lastly abortion has existed since ancient times, but wasn't really until 1660's that we knew about sperm. So as a species we long developed views and beliefs about things before we understood how they actually work, and again, that makes sense given its easier to believe than it is to understand, point is no one should be vilifying anyone because of beliefs here, should be honest and sincere discussions based on understanding and knowledge. A child should be something adored and loved, protected and kept safe, but most of us don't live in societies that can give every child that, not every parent can give a child that. Guess what? Teens and adults deserve that care, love, safety and protection too, but most of us don't live in societies that give us that. Being pregnant shouldn't be seen as something a woman has to endure as a punishment because they did or didn't give consent to sex. Then yes, for our species, some people more than others, the ideas of a potential person, one that is terminated after conception/fertilization, it can be a horrifying and sick, and incredibly sad, unfair and disturbing idea and feeling. Like any idea, feeling or sense, it needs to be checked against understand, facts, knowledge to actually accurately determine validity. Since people come to this topic from different cultures, backgrounds, country, religious view, so on, can present difficultly in getting everyone on the same page. I am glad people are being respectful and civil with each other.
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