Nucatola can speak that way because our culture has so aggressively normalized what used to be a lamentable, last, worst option for a woman. In their zeal to make abortion culturally acceptable to a religious and center-right country, abortion supporters removed a necessary and important stigma that should exist so that teenagers weigh the consequences of sex, and so that women think very carefully about taking the lives of their unborn children. I am certain many women do, but that’s not thanks to Planned Parenthood’s cavalier sales pitches.

It’s also not thanks to abortion’s political proponents. The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left on abortion that it no longer represents mainstream opinion, as was evidenced by Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis’ clueless assumption that she could become the governor of her state on a pro-abortion platform.

This poses a problem for Hillary Clinton. When running for U.S. Senate, she used to brag about how her husband lowered abortion rates while president, and she promoted the need to keep abortion not only legal but safe and rare. That very language has since been dropped from the Democratic platform. So does she agree with her party now that abortion needn’t be safe or rare in the interest of making it popular?