Since the Supreme Court has returned the abortion laws back to the states, a woman’s right to one is dictated by 50 different state legislatures. Some states will outlaw all abortions except when the life of the mother is in danger. Other states will include some choice if the woman has been raped or in the case of incest. Some states will allow abortion on demand.

So the state, in ones that restrict abortion, can have the final choice on how a woman handles her pregnancy. If the state chooses to restrict access to abortion then women must obey the law of the state even if it differs from the individual woman’s conscious. This means that in Ohio a woman can not have an abortion if she learns her baby will be born with Down’s Syndrome since that state made this illegal. There is no consensus on the morality of getting an abortion if the fetus has Down’s Syndrome. Different women will make different choices. But now her decision hinges on whether her state allows her to abort. If her state forbids abortion in this circumstance, the woman will be forced to carry the baby to term.

Doesn’t it then follow, if the state can regulate a women’s fertility, that a state could decide to control population through a two child maximum law. If she finds herself pregnant after 2 children, she would be required to have an abortion. No matter that a woman’s personal conscious tells her that abortion is wrong, the state tells her she must abort.

How horrible is that?

Now imagine a woman forced to carry a Down’s Syndrome fetus until the birth. How horrible is that?