Oh, my bad. Americans hold the rights of the individual paramount but tend to be conformist socially. You have the right to be different but nobody is going to make it easy for you.
(It's also worth noting that the vast majority of the recent nonsense over abortion has entirely to do with the last trimester. The fact that something is a "strongly held right" doesn't mean some people won't from time to time argue it should be modified or changed. That's just healthy political debate.)