I don't need to take a poll, nor do I read abortion polls. I talk to women. The vast majority of women that I know say that they would never have an abortion themselves, but they think it should remain legal.
No one is seriously advocating banning birth control pills at this stage. If they are, as most are, abortifacient pills rather than contraceptive pills, then they are abortion means and bannable.
At this stage...because if you talk about it now, your support would drop 50%.
I would rather have 100,000 women acting immorally and killing their babies than give government the power to force one to remain pregnant.
Maybe we can advance beyond that to trying the abortion mob for crimes against humanity! Did you know that there were prosecutions of abortionists (for committing abortions) at the Nuremburg War Crimes Tribunal? Source: Professor of History John Hunt (possibly emeritus by now), St. Joseph College, West Hartford, CT.
If you regard a total crackdown on abortion as the worst tyranny of an overly powerful government, you have a very limited imagination and a limited grasp of reality.
Your first paragraph suggests that yours is a regrettable social circle of those who believe in preserving a "right" to homicide against innocent victims in a nation not sure of the morality of executing the likes of Charlie Manson, Scott Peterson and the growing legion of rape-murderers of ten-year-olds, much less the more mundane local abortion mill operator.
Also, can you spell: "anecdotal" which is not a compliment to those who extrapolate public opinion from their inner circle of similar eccentrics? One antonym to "anecdotal" is responsible general polling by professionals who know what they are doing and the relationship between the characteristics of pollees and the characteristics of the general public.
Your last paragraph says it all. At the very least, it is not conservative to advocate or even to tolerate the slaughter by surgical abortion of one hundred thousand innocent babies, period. End of story.
Why do you imagine yourself conservative when you display the "ethics" and "philosophy" of Margaret Sanger or Ayn Rand????
I've heard that line seceral times myself--- "I wouldn't have an abortion, but I don't want to prohibit other women." Turns out several of my 'friends' (coworkers when we were all young) actually had abortions because they used it as birth control after the fact, fooling with married men. Dummies.