And one of the core questions to be answered when prescribing how and when the government can restrict your rights is "which is the worse outcome for society as

And one of the core questions to be answered when prescribing how and when the government can restrict your rights is "which is the worse outcome for society as a whole?" The question of abortion really crystallizes this question perfectly for me: Which is worse? That a small number of people use infanticide in lieu of pro-active birth control? Or that a small number of people are forced to carry a nonviable pregnancy to term (even at the cost of their own life), or carry and raise a reminder of their rape (up to and including providing visitation/custody to their rapist)? There's a reason this is so controversial, and its because people (rightly) can't agree on which outcome society must necessarily be an accessory to.