The Politics of Abortion

John Avlon: You can track public opinion based on people's instinctive responses to images of the fetus. Even Roe, you know, ultrasound was not that sophisticated when Roe was decided. It was really kind of in the mid 80s, actually, where it took off.Avlon: Both sides of that tension had been sort of building up for 50 years. With both those, both those forces having built up.