What is the point if it is incompatible with life and will either never have a life at all because of not having a brain, or if a condition is diagnosed that makes birth impossible or excessively dangerous. Many of these conditions are caught earlier or end in a miscarriage, but not all serious neural defects are grossly apparent. When anyone passes laws that don't make exceptions for these extreme cases, why? How am I supposed to take this bullshit as in good faith?
I'd at least go as far, though, as saying there should really be an actually solid reason for wanting an abortion that late and it shouldn't be just pure at-will.
At 8 months the fetus will feel pain and fully react to stimuli... you can see this when babies are born slightly premature like this all the time. There's no good faith in your argument. At that size, there's no non-invasive way of ending the pregnancy either. There's no way the abortion is going to be safer or less cruel than birth. There's no conceivable situation where dialating and slowly stabbing and tearing apart a baby is faster or safer than inducing labor or ceasarian. There's a reason why it's called a partial-birth abortion at that point. The women still has to birth a baby at that point, it can't just be teleported out. We aren't living in medieval times where that might be the grim solution to a baby getting stuck for the slight chance that maybe the woman would live... we'd just do an emergency c-section. Especially because eight months along this is probably a wanted child so the mother has no reason to want to go through a more dangerous baby removal process than just delivery.
In fact, it's so senseless that the best excuse New York could come up with is fucking spite for the baby causing you mental distress... like the knowledge that it gets to live fills the woman with so much seething hatred she needs to have it killed or else she would want to commit suicide. In that circumstance, she's a heinous bitch and we should just let her end herself. Seriously, no matter how much you hate someone you don't get to murder them in their sleep. Calling a near term baby "unconscious" in that circumstance is no less absurd.
Even if your baby is going to be born retarded or deformed, it's still going to be less harmful to a woman's body to just have a ceasarian and then make the baby comfortable as it passes, or just let it be a downie. Downie lives aren't even that bad. If you don't want the downie, let it go to the downie farms with people who know how to handle one. Seriously, there's a downie office worker here. She's doing quite well for herself. We don't even put animals down in as horrific a manner as is done with that late a term of abortion.
Also, if the baby is dead in utero now, it's also not counted as an abortion to induce labor. Women also tend to mourn these babies and even have funerals for them. For that, you are going to want your dead mini baby in tact, so also, these aren't the type who are going to want it in pieces.
If a women is that late term and she has say, pre-eclampsia or full out eclampsia, there's no extra safety gained by tearing the baby apart either... they again, just do a ceasarian or induce labor, even if it's premature. The baby bears a risk to its survival, sure, but no greater benefit would be gained by denying it the chance at that point.