The Abortion Divide Isn’t Real

A large majority of Americans don’t talk, but do feel, women should have access to the reproductive care they need

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Very Unpopular Strong Opinions Blog by Christyl Rivers

Majority rule

A clear majority of Americans want access to reliable birth control that eliminates the need for most abortions. They want it to be affordable (or free in we are investing in better lives) and they want an infrastructure that truly honors and supports parental leave, child-care, education, and shared parental responsibility.

A clear majority also want women to have access — even if limited access-, to abortion. The myth that a woman carries a child for nine months just to abort it at the end is an outrageous lie with not one single example.

Here is some propaganda from the non-majority side, that dishonors life.

When women do have an abortion, it is overwhelmingly in the first few weeks, long before a “baby” or even a heart, exists.

Shame is the reason we can say one in four women have abortions. That is because, I am confident, having been a therapist, and a woman, I am certain that it is more than one in four. As it is in the case of rape, the “one in four number” is of…