Thank you for explaining that a little better! I admit I was not aware that's what it meant (the whole state autonomy thing has always been a bit tricky to follow for me, as a European). While I find your comment extremely thoughtful and well put together, I have a question:

I live in a state where the majority of people are pro-life then we should not be forced to comply with a law we opposed to.

But supposing the law in your state was that women were allowed to have abortions up to, I don't know, 12 weeks? How would that be harmful for the pro-life majority? I mean, wouldn't the people who are pro-life keep their baby anyway, regardless of the law? That's where the issue gets murky for me, because having abortion laws in place doesn't impose on the people who want to keep their babies...

That being said, I agree completely that abortion past six months is absurd and vicious. I mean, I looked over US abortion laws by state while writing this, and was astonished to find the very liberal abortion laws over there. In my own country, it's apparently 14 weeks. Personally, I think the heartbeat law is more than fair. While it can be tricky to detect pregnancy, six weeks is ample time to realize something's off, and nip to the chemist for a pregnancy test.