Brentai wrote:I suspect the biggest misconception on both sides of the issue is that abortions are somewhat uncommon. I also suspect the actual scale is going to become... much more clear to people, over the next three months.
Another contender for "biggest misconception", one which has been at the center of the abortion debate for 20 years, is that people have late-term abortions on a whim. Here's a Nitter mirror of a Twitter thread of a woman who works at a cemetery talking about late-term abortions; it's not a fun read and probably won't be new information to anybody here, but if you happen to know anybody who's fallen for the "partial-birth abortion" talking point but is still rational enough that they might be swayed by a different perspective, it might be worth bookmarking.
(I also expect the family morals people to choke a bit on their own smugness when they realize that the people they've mainly convinced to stop having sex are heterosexual, stable couples - you know, the people making decisions about their pregnancies. Gays don't give a damn, and people who are just horny and not thinking straight will continue to be horny and not thinking straight regardless of the consequences.)
I think you're ascribing an ability to observe and learn that these people simply do not have.
There are a lot of people who are ambivalent about abortion in large part because they don't have a working understanding of the facts or statistics. But the vast majority of the evangelical population that's been pushing for this for the past 50 years is not going to change their mind or admit any mistake, for any reason, ever.