Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of
religious conviction, nonsectarian moral
conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to
prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....