According to the polls, most Americans don't much care for abortion. That being so, the mystery of why legalized abortion remains the law of the land thirty-eight years after Roe v. Wade needs probing.
Based on the experience of these nearly four decades, two facts stand out.
One is that a significant number of Americans have been and still are convinced that the Supreme Court decision of January 22, 1973 was not just a technical mistake in constitutional interpretation but a grave injustice that will continue to poison national life unless and until it's corrected.
The other is that a significant number who more or less agree that abortion isn't a good thing, at least in most cases, nevertheless don't care enough about it to take the necessary remedial action: putting committed prolife politicians in the White House and Congress as a required step toward correcting the injustice of Roe.
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