Abortion should be accessible in the first trimester but restricted afterward (with medical exceptions), because this aligns with both evidence and widely shared moral intuitions: over 90% of abortions already occur within the first 12–13 weeks, when procedures are safest, simplest, and involve an embryo that has not yet developed consciousness or viability, while later abortions are rare and usually linked to serious fetal or health complications rather than elective choice; this approach preserves early bodily autonomy while acknowledging that the moral weight of fetal development increases over time, making it a compromise that reflects how abortion actually happens in practice rather than an extreme stance on either side.