I reckon that nobody here argues, that a dead foetus isn't a pity and it would be far better, if the foetus would be born and grow up as a human being.
But I see so many problems with banning abortion
1. What are the reason for abortions? I reckon it's in many cases pure desperation due to most importantly rape, fear of the future, etc. or it's just because the mother faces severe problems to a birth which might cost here life.
2. Would a woman who feels desperated do it anyway or not? Abortion have been there before science made it save and a lot of women died and are still dying because of doing it with needles and other things.
3. So isn't denying them medical treadment, denying THEM one of their human rights?
4. Wouldn't it be better for churches to provide more services to show the women a way to keep the unborn, WITHOUT judging them as murders if they make an abortion and make them feel even more miserable as they were before?
5. What would be the penality for an abortion? And should somebody who saw no other choices be punished?
But these are just the problems with banning abortion, as I see no other way than to let or keep it legalized. I'm not a physician nor a human biologist, so I keep it to the experts to define the time of an abortion.
In Germany its illegal, but not punished, if it happens in the first 12 weeks and after you went to a pregnancy consultation. Exception apply, if the life of the mother is in danger or the child is severe disabled. Then abortion is de facto also allowed at a later stage.