I think you need to place yourself back in those times. Nobody believed or considered it would turn into what it has. Good people knew that nobody's wife, mother or sister was ever going to get one of those so it didn't matter at all. Very few read into it as murder of the unborn.
What? There were no riots in Detroit and Watts? No SLA or Weather Underground? No bell tower shootings or postal workers gone postal? Son of Sam? Kent State? They were pretty tame by today’s standards. But so was the Kishinev pogrom compared to the Holocaust.
Those are good points. Also I guess you could say that no country had ever really had sustained non-violent and disruptive protests over abortion as far as I know, either. There also are no chalk outlines and very, very, very few survivors with abortion, so maybe it is harder to get riled up about I guess. I don’t know, I always think about it and find it pretty shocking that nothing was done—no sustained general strike or whatever.
Freegards
The WWII generation was 50 yrs old when Roe v Wade came down and it’s not like they were politically organized. They voted and that’s about it.
If you wanted activism it came from the Left, from the Silent Generation and from older ‘Boomers.
Considering that the sexual revolution and the drug culture had been chugging along for about a decade it’s not like an abortion ruling was going to outrage a bunch of hedonists. And there were plenty of hedonists among conservatives in the libertarian camp, it divided more on religion than on politics.
Throw in Vietnam, Watergate, inflation, wage and price controls and there was plenty in the news to occupy peoples’ attention.