The middle ground began back in the early days of Roe v. Wade. In the early days of this pogrom, there was no middle ground, either you were for abortion or against it and you were aborting a “baby”. Over the years of hedonistic propaganda, the baby is now a “fetus” and abortion is now a viable berth control method, financed, in part by our taxes.
We are fed constantly via TV an Movies that abortion is an acceptable alternative to giving birth, even to the point that any that appose it are either insanely religious, crazy or extremely intolerant.
Frog in boiling water?
I disagree. I suspect that if you'd asked this question ten or twenty years ago, you'd have a higher percentage who think that it's okay to abort simply because the child is unwanted. Over the years, our society has moved away from the idea that abortion is a good thing. When the issue started in the 70's, I think very few people saw the child as a person and saw the issue as a clear decision between protecting the child and not protecting the child. The development of ultrasound and pictures of the developing baby, the understanding of fetal development and the beginning of brain waves, the development of fetal surgery techniques have all moved people closer to thinking about the issue in terms of whether the unborn child is a person. However, even as we think of abortion in those terms, most Americans do not see the issue in the black-and-white terms that the most zealous pro-lifers do.
Bill