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"Where people are" is placing feelings over thought.  We have had a couple of generations of feminism indoctrinating women that principled decision making is a form of patriarchal oppression.  They (and men too) have lost the underlying philosophical assumptions necessary for understanding that there is such a thing as right and wrong and that we ought to choose what is right.  There is no foundation for people to do hard things because it is the right thing to do. 

It is probably safer and easier now for single women to have babies than at any other point in Western history.  They will get money from the government and not face social disgrace.  But it is still hard because having children, even under ideal conditions, is always hard. I was happily married and financially secure and, nevertheless, raising my children is the hardest thing I've ever done.  The psychological and spiritual issue is that people do not know how to tell right from wrong and how to do hard things. 

One of the main things that people need is the Catholic intellectual tradition: logic, philosophy, and theology.  What we can do is train ourselves to think and to pass this skill on to our children.  Emotions should be guided by intellect which should be formed by Church teaching.  Every person who learns how to think is a point of light in the darkness of our times.  We do not need more worrying about how people feel.  The unbalanced emphasis on feelings is one of the fundamental underlying problems of our culture.  Yet more emphasis on feelings is not the solution.

We don't know how many abortions there would have been if Roe vs Wade were still in place.  Perhaps it would have been far more than actually occurred. 

(It is actually a logical fallacy to assume that something that happened before another thing caused it.  There is even a fancy Latin name for it post hoc propter hoc which you can throw around if you want to impress people  That's what Latin is for, right?)