Alan F. Guttmacher, M.D., “the father of Planned Parenthood,” longtime abortion advocate whose name was used for Planned Parenthood’s sister organization, the Guttmacher Institute: “Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and, if so, abortion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life.”
But let's stipulate that there are some conditions that, while not-life threatening, may nevertheless be harmful to the mother, such as gestational diabetes. Let's say that maybe 4% of pregnancies result in GD that can't be controlled and end up being harmful to the mother.
I support a "paper abortion" for men, as long as they have to pay at least 5% of the least costly option for the woman, abortion plus any attendant costs (e.g., travel). However, the idea that pregnancy is not bad for women is ridiculous.
According to your citation from Guttmacher,
almost any patient can live through pregnancy.
Well, guess what? That means not all women can live through it.
Sweden has just about the lowest mortality rate for childbirth for women, and even though they have socialized medicine that is recognized as fabulous, and prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal care is, too, some women still die every year, and the US childbirth mortality rate for women is over twice as high.
That's just whatever deaths are used in calculating the childbirth mortality rate. In fact, some women die in late pregnancy, some in childbirth, some in the 42 days after childbirth, some in the six months after childbirth, and some in the first year after childbirth, of deaths which can all be traced to pregnancy-related causes. But most deaths past the 42 days are not even considered, and some within those 42 days are not considered, even though they are traceable.
Only a couple of decades ago, some states would report that women in their twenties and thirties died of heart attacks or strokes without bothering to add that the reason was childbirth labor, because they didn't want people to know childbirth was killing them.
And that's just deaths. I have recently read somewhere that in the US, of childbirths where women don't die, some really huge percent of them nearly die. In pregnancies that aren't aborted, about one-third of the women are seriously injured or ill, with significant numbers permanently injured.
Even in those pregnancies/childbirths where women are supposedly completely healthy, the good health they had before pregnancy usually never returns. They have to adjust to a whole new body.
And some research has shown that women who have never gave birth to children constitute a much bigger percentage of women over 90 years of age - it appears that those who give birth to them die a lot earlier. If they did not fully and freely consent to the pregnancy, that would obviously be alienation of their right to years of their lives.
I'm sick of people trivializing pregnancy and childbirth and acting as if they can just take it for granted. If the government bans abortion, it will serve them all right if women just give up sex for good.