It seems reasonable to me to allow elective abortion until coordinated brain activity can be detected in a fetal brain; this is apparently around 20 weeks in.

That's for completely elective abotion. But critically, continuing even a wanted pregnancy can sometimes endanger a woman's health, so permitting abortions to preserve the health of the mother throughout pregnancy is important.

AFAICT, once viability is reached, at 24 weeks or so, healthy fetuses don't get aborted, they get delivered. All this talk about aborting babies 5 minutes before their due date is just made up BS.

IOW, there are reasonable compromises, which actually don't look very different from Roe -- elective abortion is OK in the first 4 months, or to preserve the health of the mother. If something goes wrong with the pregnancy and the fetus is past viability, deliver the baby (unless this is impossible, which I've never heard).

It is important when writing laws that a doctor performing a medically necessary abortion is protected if *the doctor* believes that an abortion is necessary. Some red state "exceptions" don't specify who makes this determination, allowing prosecutors to second guess doctors. This is how the anti-choice legislators make exceptions that look good on paper but that doctors can't actually make use of.