Not sure any society would be consistent about abortion policies for it to matter, but genetic components to behavior would be selected for or against by the policy.
To the extent there is a 'genetic' propensity towards rape, consistently allowing (or requiring) such offspring to come to term would eventually (and it might be quite a long time) increase prevalence of that genetic component.
To the extent there is a 'genetic' propensity to not abort ones offspring, consistently allowing (or encouraging) abortion will increase the prevalence of the trait to find abortion inappropriate.
Complicating that 'blunt' assessment is abortion in cases of genetic anomalies or environmentally induced malformations (recall thalidomide) and the effects on various deleterious genes and their frequencies in the population.
And a further complication, gross genetic abnormalities, apparent in infancy and/or childhood are already experiencing deselection, but anomalies only appearing after childbearing years aren't.
To the extent there is a 'genetic' propensity towards rape, consistently allowing (or requiring) such offspring to come to term would eventually (and it might be quite a long time) increase prevalence of that genetic component.
To the extent there is a 'genetic' propensity to not abort ones offspring, consistently allowing (or encouraging) abortion will increase the prevalence of the trait to find abortion inappropriate.
Complicating that 'blunt' assessment is abortion in cases of genetic anomalies or environmentally induced malformations (recall thalidomide) and the effects on various deleterious genes and their frequencies in the population.
And a further complication, gross genetic abnormalities, apparent in infancy and/or childhood are already experiencing deselection, but anomalies only appearing after childbearing years aren't.
