Well, I agree it probably hasn't because, first, it's not a great idea to make that law, and second, Roe sort of made it moot by defining the fetus as merely a potential person. Hard to discuss responsibility to a merely potential thing. Back in '71 when everyone was debating this before Roe, a variety of frameworks were considered. Judith Jarvis Thomson has a well known piece, "A Defense of Abortion". It allows that a fetus is a person but then argues that a woman has less (or even no) responsibility to a fetus unless she intended to get pregnant. It may have no influence in law, but in the mind of the common person, I believe it is quite prevalent.
People like to mock millennials, sometimes not unfairly. I have wondered if one could define the millennial attitude as the generation of people raised with the idea they are not responsible for the natural consequences of their freely chosen actions, so long as they "didn't mean for it to happen". I thought of it again last week; I saw in a student newspaper an article in which a young woman was interviewed about her addiction to alcohol. The headline quotation was, "I never asked to become an addict". I was thinking to myself, what does that have to do with it?
