Is abortion less of an issue simply because there are less abortions?

[Indy Texas]

I think, at least for Generation Y, protecting a woman's access to abortion is less compelling because:

1. The ways of preventing pregnancy to begin with are more numerous and more reliable. The Pill, IUDs, and the Morning-After pill are all commonplace, allow a woman to have control over whether or not a pregnancy can happen, and have very low failure rates.

If someone has an unwanted pregnancy, it's a lot harder not to look at it as a case of irresponsibility.

2. The consequences of illegitimate births are less severe today. Even social conservatives, in part because they became so slavishly devoted to the anti-abortion cause, have tacitly condoned unwed single mothers. Most babies born in 2014 are what would have been called "bastards" a few decades ago. While single motherhood certainly isn't "easy", there are far more options to make it work: women have access to a wider scope of job opportunities, whereas their pre-Roe counterparts would often have been consigned to "taking in laundry" to make ends meet while living in a parent or sibling's attic. And childbirth in general is a lot safer. Dying in childbirth is practically unheard of nowadays.