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In reply to the discussion: Have democrats largely given up on protecting a woman's right to choose? [View all]kiva
(4,373 posts)especially young women, do not believe they will ever need an abortion. They've grown up in a culture where single motherhood is no longer a taboo (yea!), many have the support of their friends and family, and they really cannot imagine a situation where having a child would impact their lives in a negative fashion.
Secondly, many have absorbed the conservative meme that abortion is murder. A lot of young women - including a few in my family - are not religious, haven't been in a church a half dozen times in their lives, but still can't separate the notion of a fetus from that of a baby (poor science educations, IMO) and see the procedure in that light.
I don't know if we can reverse this trend of limiting a woman's right to choose, I'm afraid it won't end until enough women have their lives turned upside down by an unwanted pregnancy they could not end.