I'm not sure how to respond to your first concern, since I don't know what laws you're referring to. There are no laws I know of specifically exempting abortion from general informed consent rules. The controversies have been over the medical accuracy of some states' rules that are exceptional in the direction of *more* information - such as rules that women must be told about an increased risk of breast cancer (the controversy because the studies purporting to show a link are deeply questionable). And I don't know who you're referring to when you say that "people" insist that abortion is non-invasive. Dude, it's a surgical procedure. Open heart surgery is invasive, too.
No, legal != condoned or approved. Adultery is legal. Sitting on your couch all day instead of going out and doing something worthwhile is legal. At most legal = "not always and everywhere wrong." I'm not sure what you mean at the end of the paragraph - yeah, pro-choice folks typically want abortion to be legal in the sense of "not prohibited by law."
I'm not sure where you're seeing abortion depicted as a stopgap for failed birth control. Maude had an abortion on TV in 1972, and then the next TV depiction (that I could find any reference to) was Everwood a couple years ago. Recent movies dealing with pregnancy have been notable for mostly not seriously raising abortion as an option (with the notable exception of Juno, where it was rejected).
As for what real people are trying to do, well, most pro-choice organizations also fight hard for birth control and comprehensive sex ed (both of which lower the rate of unplanned pregnancy, and hence abortions; Mathematica just finished a study under contract with the DoH indicating no impact from ab-only sex ed). I'd also add that most pro-choice folks tend to have lefty views about poverty reduction, health care, and education as well - and getting folks better educated and less poor in general tends to lower abortion rates.
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No, legal != condoned or approved. Adultery is legal. Sitting on your couch all day instead of going out and doing something worthwhile is legal. At most legal = "not always and everywhere wrong." I'm not sure what you mean at the end of the paragraph - yeah, pro-choice folks typically want abortion to be legal in the sense of "not prohibited by law."
I'm not sure where you're seeing abortion depicted as a stopgap for failed birth control. Maude had an abortion on TV in 1972, and then the next TV depiction (that I could find any reference to) was Everwood a couple years ago. Recent movies dealing with pregnancy have been notable for mostly not seriously raising abortion as an option (with the notable exception of Juno, where it was rejected).
As for what real people are trying to do, well, most pro-choice organizations also fight hard for birth control and comprehensive sex ed (both of which lower the rate of unplanned pregnancy, and hence abortions; Mathematica just finished a study under contract with the DoH indicating no impact from ab-only sex ed). I'd also add that most pro-choice folks tend to have lefty views about poverty reduction, health care, and education as well - and getting folks better educated and less poor in general tends to lower abortion rates.