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... really doubt that when she was growing up in the 1940s and 1950s she argued with members of her family in support of abortion on demand...

Maybe, maybe not.

Keep in mind that abortion on demand did not begin with Roe. It was legal in some States and in the District of Columbia years before Roe. We certainly did discuss the issue in Catholic High School in the late 1960's. At that very time, as a matter of fact, there was a lot of reference to the 30/90 day fetal question. The claim that the early Church was "flexible" on this issue has been a talking point among confused Catholics for a long time. I was glad to see it brought up by Stretch Pelosi: it should've been smacked down publicly and authoritatively a long time ago.

At the time of the thalidomide disaster, there was an American woman who had somehow taken the drug, who went to Sweden for an abortion because she was afraid her baby would be deformed...that got some attention (c. 1960).

Since Pelosi is such an authority on St. Augustine, maybe she will agree to support a ban on abortions later than 40 days for male babies and 90 days fro girl babies.