the issue has been taken over by feminists, needless to say it has completely driven moderate support from the issue. Many state and city level policies have been enacted that, while not outright banning abortions, make it near impossible for a licensed abortionist to open shop or maintain an opened shop.  The end result is that the abortion battle has been steadily being lost against those who disagree for religious reasons; there are simply more religious people who are anti-abortion than there are feminist zealots, and the feminist zealots have chased off most moderate support.  A similar thing has interestingly been happening to the environmentalist movement. I occasionally visit different cause events just to take stock on cultural shifts. Most earth day kind of events these days attract your normal collection of aging green peace hippies and free thinkers, however, the young attending these events mostly comprise locavore hipsters attracted by the kind of farm food that always follows such events and SJW types more interested in whether or not enough women or blacks are involved than any of the actual issues up for discussion.  An important thing to realize is that SJWs are the kiss of death for progressiveness. Their involvement completely paralyzes many legitimate progressive causes because they undermine the entire debate from the onset, and most progressive people are less likely to outright tell them to fuck off in order to address the issues. Because of this many issues are quickly losing ground.  Abortion is the one quickest to be lost. The debate itself involves many legitimate questions not only on what should technically be considered a human, but also what rights to men deserve if the assumption is made that women have a right to an abortion. As a "women's rights" issue abortion has become a tent pole for 3rd wave feminism, and one of the quickest topics to attract SJW shut down policies. Because of this, it will never attract the kind of moderate traction required to mount an effective resistance to the hyper religious far right.  SJW, while pervasive, does not attract the kind of political power on it's own to go toe to toe with the old guard religious right, and it won't until the baby boomers die out. If 3rd wave feminism enjoys it's current popularity long enough to outlive the baby boomers, it might just do that. However, I personally feel it is a fad that will be dead and buried with the end of the decade, and that when abortion becomes a hot button issue again it will do so along with an honest debate of what rights men deserve in a world where a pregnancy is not an inevitable outcome of unprotected sex, but instead a woman's choice to carry to child birth.