Only 41% of Americans Identify as Pro-Choice

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's a shame that only a quarter of Americans believe abortion should be allowed for any reason.  And it's even more a shame that only a few countries in Europe allow abortion for any reason during any trimester.  Iceland doesn't even allow abortion on demand, and it's probably the most progressive nation in the world.

Iceland's brand of progressivism involves (warning: gross oversimplification ahead) a particular sort of austere vaguely puritany feminism, which makes this understandable, if somewhat counter-intuitive.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

It's a shame that only a quarter of Americans believe abortion should be allowed for any reason.  And it's even more a shame that only a few countries in Europe allow abortion for any reason during any trimester.  Iceland doesn't even allow abortion on demand, and it's probably the most progressive nation in the world.

Iceland's brand of progressivism involves (warning: gross oversimplification ahead) a particular sort of austere vaguely puritany feminism, which makes this understandable, if somewhat counter-intuitive.

I don't get it.

Think of the porn ban there. There are versions of feminism that view the maximization of choice for specific individual women as ancillary to attempts to promote some general female welfare or another, and for some people that can include a high value placed on pregnancy and motherhood. I haven't studied Icelandic abortion law or the reasoning behind it in depth but this came to mind as a possible cultural fit (then again, I'm very tired right now). It's also possible to oppose abortion on antieugenic grounds, even though that sometimes comes across as crankish or paranoid.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Well, I'm not sure how I feel about that.  I still tend to think Iceland is awesome.

I agree with both sentences here.

Any of our posters who have greater familiarity with Iceland than I do, feel free to correct me if my guess-interpretation is completely chimerical.