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The only lost cause I'm aware of are folks who are old enough to know better who support abortion.

I would agree that most are lost causes, but have known a few who changed their minds. One 35 year old woman I know had 3 abortions. When I became aware that she was pregnant again I begged her to keep the baby. She and her husband decided to, and began preparing to have a family. In the middle of the 5th month her water broke and the baby arrived early. She watched as the EMTs tried to save her baby as it died right in front of her. She was so depressed I didn't know if she would make it. She told me it wasn't so much this baby, but the 3 others she had killed prior that tormented her. They had been further along than this one. She finally had another baby, and is a wonderful mother. This baby was born prematurely, and has some eye problems because of damage she had done to her body using abortion as birth control in the past.

When I was quite young. I took a young woman who was a friend of mine to a "clinic" because no one else would and she was terrified and hysterical and her boyfriend had washed his hands of her.

After the "procedure", she was almost having a nervous breakdown, she was so distraught when I went into the recovery room. I tried to console her...it was a very very bad experience. What was worse was that in the bed next to her was an older coiffed career women in her 30s who kept admonishing the young girl I knew to "quit squalling, that she (the mistress of the universe type) was damn glad to get that "thing" out of her and the girl I was with kept squalling that she had "killed her baby". This was 1974. I was 17. I know the young girl I accompanied that day has never had another abortion and to this day seriously laments the fact that she did. I would bet the harridan in the bed next to her has never changed her views about killing that "thing" that she obviously viewed as nothing more than an internal wart.

It was pivotal to me and as I grew older and had children later, it sealed it for me. I would venture that at least 20-25% of the dating girls in my High School had abortions in the early 70s and I bet many have guilt over it now. But married older women who don't blink at it are never going to change. Neither are shiftless men who lay seed and move on without a second thought.