It's not really the average Joes. It's more like the average Declans and Liams. lol
In all seriousness, I think this is happening, because they're having to make a sudden intellectual update and pivot. In 1972, there was plausible doubt about if a fetus was actually a person. One could at least speculatively claim that it was just a "clump of cells" as a basis to support abortion rights, and since they only had to convince people who already agreed with them (elite thinkers at big national newspaper editorial boards and a handful of Supreme Court justices), they never really had to take the issue any further than that. Their position could be forced through overwhelming airtime and judicial tyranny, and it didn't matter if reality backed it up or not. The Court made it so they could basically tell anyone who called them into question to f**k off, which is what they did. Persuasion was completely unnecessary, and they made no serious attempt to persuade.
However, most actual average Joes have known this was ******** for decades. All it took was seeing a sonogram, and it was pretty obvious that this was garbage. With the issue moving to state legislatures now, they're going to have to make a real intellectual argument for the first time in half a century and know the "it's not a person" basis won't hold up, especially if you're arguing for literally zero limits on abortion as their position now is. So they're making the pivot to, "it doesn't matter if it's person. I get to kill it if it's in my womb." Honestly, what else can they do? It's the only tool left in their shed other than just rank fearmongering, but that's just a diversion, and they already do plenty of that.
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