And you know who has been misguiding the could've-been-mothers most? The Malthusians in their current incarnation as deep ecologists.
No matter how many times Malthus has been proven wrong, his ideas are still drummed into the skull of ever school-child, to get us all to repeat the demonic canard "Everybody knows the planet has too many people." Abortion is discreetly touted as a voluntary act of cutting off that growth. Mostly on the Left, but some allegedly of the Right as well. And the relentless "environmental" drumbeat in the media and the schools and by the Democrats and acceded to by our RINOs.
No, to call it simply a selfish act -- even where it is such -- is to miss the top-down selfishness of those who have schemed to convince women and many men too (too many of whom wished to avoid the consequences of their dalliances) -- to cutoff their own natural road to immortality.