re: Mind-blowing: The Economic Consequences of Being Denied an Abortion

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Can't that be extended to anything?

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I see your point, but there is a significant difference.

I doubt that even one percent of the population would see it as being moral/ethical to end the life of a living, breathing human due to mental illness. There is an almost-visceral feeling that rights vest when an organism leaves the birth canal, regardless of whether that feeling is logical.

By contrast, less than half the population feels the same way about an embryo, and the share of the population who feels the same way about a zygote or blastocyst may be SMALLER than the share that would kill that disabled adult.

In a coherent society, it makes sense to act in concert where there is near-unanimity. Less so, when society is fractured on the issue, and legislation would pass (if at all) by the slimmest of margins.

It is what it is.