Philadelphia Steve:

... anyone who decides to have an abortion is a selfish person. .

I think this article's most weak point is that it goes one argument too far. Of course people recognize the importance of women's self-determination, autonomy, personal sovereignty, etc. But the argument the author makes completely ignores the other side of that moral calculus. That abortion looks "icky" visually isn't the problem most people have with it, it's that it looks selfish and deficient morally.

The middle group that's ok with it under certain circumstances must, to some extent believe this. Why shouldn't they? It's not as if men and the unborn have no interests whatsoever. Those in vast middle that disagree with the author believe that the woman's interests, for whatever reason, can overcome or are significantly more legitimate than those of her unborn child and anyone else's. The reason there's been success restricting "late term" abortions is that a fairly convincing case can be made that, as a pregnancy progresses, many people reason that its moral gravity increases. Plenty of people that are fairly untroubled by a first-trimester uterus scraping are profoundly troubled by the idea of a woman terminating a pregnancy beyond the point where an early delivery would most likely have survived. The author's argument seems to be that no one should be bothered in the slightest by either because it's simply none of anyone's business. That's a hard sell when we're talking about a viable, late term fetus.

To pretend like there's absolutely no moral weight on the anti- side completely ignores the views of the large middle she'd like to win over. The vast middle believes that abortion is selfish, but that sometimes selfishness deserves to win out.