Despite the amount of attention is has received over the last half century, the abortion debate remains shrouded in ignorance. To bolster their case, abortion rights advocates regularly cite majority opposition to overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court’s 1973 abortion ruling that struck down nearly all restrictions on the practice. But they never mention that most Americans have no clue what would happen if Roe were overturned (Abortion law would fall back to the states to decide individually.) Instead, they advance the idea that if Roe were overturned, the country would be transported back to the era of wire hangers and back alley abortions.

Much of the public is clueless about fetal development as well. Most people aren’t all that knowledgeable about how the human person develops en utero, and abortion advocates are partly to blame for that ignorance.