I've gone back and forth on this issue. Here's my logic at this point. Life starts at conception, the sperm and egg become a developing human life. Therefore killing he/she is homicide under our current laws. Killing a human life.
No additional government laws are needed.
The viability argument is not valid, children are not viable to survive on their own until at least 8 or 10 years old. I mean, just remember back to your first memory. The very first one. I was 3 or 4 years old for mine. Proof the brain is still developing and definitely not able to survive on your own.
So the viability argument would force abortion to be legal up until 8 to 10 years old.
This logic is not based on religion, god or faith of any kind. Just the definition of when life starts and existing laws.
Men should be forced to pay child support to full term of the pregnancy, as most pregnant women are unable to work or discriminated against and lose financially because of it. Maybe garnish the sperm donors paycheck for about 50% percent, while the state provides 50% if she can't find work due to her condition.
Then after birth, the male should be made to pay any medical bills and additional necessities for the child while it is put into adoption.
If the child is not adopted and the male sperm donor refuses to take responsibility for the child then he should be forced to pay 70% in child support for the child and to the woman he impregnated, up to 2 years of age.
Afterwards he should only be made to pay child support until the child is 18 years of age when the child is finally considered an adult.
So if a man impregnates his wife or girlfriend, he should give her half of his income, and the government should match that ?
Heh, heh, heh.
While I think a guy should look after his spouse, I don't see why he should overextend 50% of his income. In some cases 50% is far beyond sufficient.
If they want to make abortion illegal and want to force a woman to carry a baby to full term then the man that impregnated her should pay medical bills and 50% or more of his paycheck in order for the pregnant woman to carry the baby to term and then 70% for at least the first two years of the child's life of said child if the child doesn't get adopted. Children are expensive. Everyone knows that.