Opinion | The Declining Population Argument Against Abortion Returns

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : The F.D.A. was initially sued by a group of anti-abortion organizations and doctors who did not perform abortions themselves but who claimed "conscience injury" from the widespread availability of the medication.
52% : And so it may not come naturally to see the link between the current pro-natal discourse -- whether Vice President-elect JD Vance's crack about childless cat ladies or Elon Musk's fixation on a coming population collapse -- and the stranglehold that anti-abortion politics maintains on American civic life.
48% : As the historian James Mohr documented in his authoritative book, "Abortion in America: The Origins and Evolution of National Policy," abortion was common, and broadly legal, in the early decades of the 19th century.
44% : In her book "When Abortion Was a Crime," the historian Leslie Reagan recounts that abortion was quite common during the Depression.

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