THE Guttmacher Institute has released a report noting that more state abortion restrictions were enacted nationally from 2011 to 2013 than in the entire previous decade, labeling it a “legislative onslaught.” By 2013, the report found that 56 percent of women lived in states deemed by the institute as being “hostile” to abortion.

Do these abortion restrictions represent a “war on women”? To reach that conclusion, you'd have to believe that many women voters are waging war on themselves. But policies aren't enacted in a female-free vacuum. They're enacted by politicians who must appeal to the majority of voters, including women.

And it's not like women have failed to show up at the polls and ceded electoral control to men. Prior to the 2012 presidential election, a larger percentage of eligible women had voted in all eight presidential elections from 1980 to 2008 than the percentage of eligible men. And, in 12 consecutive presidential elections from 1964 to 2008, the raw number of female voters was greater than the number of men.

Abortion restrictions aren't being enacted because women have been disenfranchised or declared as enemy combatants, but because a growing number of men and women are uncomfortable with the “abortion on demand” ethos.