The most recent Pew study shows that 61% percent of Americans believe that abortion should be legal in all or most cases. What you've posted is misleading. Of course, how long a woman has been pregnant is considered by most people to be a factor, but overwhelmingly most Americans support what has been the law of the land for the past 50 years. That has not changed.
Your story is pointless, except for the erroneous assumption that attacks on these historically held rights are not a bid by men to control women, which they very obviously are. They've been quite vocal and clear about the fact that women having sex for any reason other than procreation is offensive. Yes, a lot of women hold these patriarchal views as well, because since the late 1980s when they became fashionable as a show of "family values" they have also been indoctrinated into these beliefs. But most legislatures passing these draconian laws are dominated by men, who quite often don't even actually understand how female bodies work. That's not something that is actually in dispute.
The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention, W.A. Criswell, who ran the First Baptist Church in Dallas, had argued that a child became an individual only after birth when “it had a life separate from its mother.” In both 1971 and 1974, Southern Baptists passed resolutions asking evangelicals to work for legal abortion in cases of rape, incest and fetal deformity, as well as cases where there was “carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental and physical health of the mother.”
It was only when the 1972 Nixon campaign decided to use the issue as a way to appeal to Catholics and social conservatives that abortion became a political topic. Abortion was once again used as a political tool in the 1980 Reagan campaign. As governor of California, Reagan had signed a bill loosening abortion restrictions, but his 1980 presidential campaign called for the appointment of anti-abortion judges. The stance was calculated for political gain.
The "other side" are those who view women as brood mares and baby ovens. It's completely and totally irrelevant when life begins. American law supports body autonomy (except for pregnant women). You cannot harvest organs from a dead body even if it will save someone's life without written permission. You cannot demand that someone give you blood or bone marrow - even if it will save the life of a baby. So WTF should it be legal to force anyone to preserve the life of someone else at the expense of their body autonomy?
People who want to decide for others what they do with their bodies deserve to be called all the things that they are. The reasonable argument is to get the fuck away from me and to stop thinking that you have any right to determine what I do with my body autonomy. There is no other "reasonable" response.
