HMM: HuffPo Poll: 59 percent support 20-week abortion ban. This shouldn’t be surprising. By the 20th week of a pregnancy, most people have seen ultrasounds, know if it’s a boy or a girl, and have probably picked a name. It feels more like a baby. Earlier on, it’s different. You get a lot of miscarriages anyway in the first trimester. Both the sides in the abortion debate — at least, their public partisans — want pregnancy to be all or nothing: It’s a baby before the sheets have dried, or it’s okay to abort in the 9th month. This doesn’t correspond with most people’s moral intuitions, which are, I think, closer to the Roe notion of pregnancy being characterized by different aspects at different times.