Not THEIR wives, daughters, etc. They would get them out of the country to have an abortion,

Women of means will go to Europe.

Women of lesser means will go to the butcher.

I'm not saying that many women don't intellectually understand why defending legal abortion is important. However, fewer and fewer living American women can remember the horrors of illegal abortion because the number of living women who were of child bearing age prior to 1973 is in decline. Even fewer women can remember a time when "The Pill" was not legal or readily available.

I'm too young to remember most of that, frankly. However, I've heard first hand and secondhand accounts from the family of what abortion was like in the 30s, 40s, 50s. It tended to work as well as other medical procedures performed by amateurs/semi amateurs -- which is to say sometimes.

The real lack of understanding I see is that, barring a successful trial of a male "Pill" (which may or may not be in the future), a law or amendment declaring that "life begins at conception" not only could end legal abortion, but could also ilegalize any form of birth control in which an egg could be fertilized, but prevented from implantation. This would also mean that the IUD (not as popular) and the Pill (wildly popular) could suddenly also become illegal. That would leave only less reliable chemical and barrier method controls, or semi-permanent solutions such as vasectomy or tubal ligation (I can hear conservatives screaming "or abstinence!" My only response is that this has neer proven to be a reliable, long term solution).

Women are property to the Republicans and their lives don't matter.