I am familiar with the law, the history, and the social/ethical/political debates about abortion. I have been reading that stuff for almost 50 years. There’s absolutely nothing new in Jacobs’ take on it. His work isn’t going to move the debate anywhere. At best, it more or less explains the current, uneasy status quo
What might be original about the paper is what is goofiest about it: The ideas that the techniques of small-scale, two-party mediation can help resolve a society-wide multi-lateral issue, and that survey research theory can inform such a mediation. I was a long way from being convinced about either.