A pro-choice author describes explains how most members of the public oppose most abortions:
“The reasons for which the American public at large is most approving of abortion are not the foremost reasons why women have abortions. Women, in the main, do not have abortions because of rape, incest, deformed fetuses, or because their physical life is in danger. But these are the most appropriate reasons in the eyes of the American public. Being poor, too young, unmarried, and not wanting a baby are deemed less valid in public opinion polls. We have a huge disjunction here that needs to be resolved. And the pathetic thing, in terms of public opinion, is that “I don’t want a baby at the moment” isn’t considered the most valid reason at all.”
Patricia Launneborg Abortion: a Positive Decision (New York: Bergin & Garvey, 1992) 33
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