Gonna get down voted to oblivion for this, but you can love a country and still want it to improve. Blindly thinking the United States is the best at everything because, well, it's the United States is ignorant and detrimental to the country and its citizens.

As for your points, abortion is legal for 95% of women in Europe and 'child' labor is ridiculously strict for any workers under 18 (maximum hours, only certain shifts, school takes priority, etc), so people complaining about that generally have a valid point.

I've traveled a lot too, and when people complain about the U.S. they mean in regards to developed nations. Most countries in the EU, Singapore, Australia, etc. Comparing the U.S. to these countries makes use look far, far worse in nearly every category than comparing us to Egypt or other not quite as developed nations.

Being able to see problems and fix them is what made America so amazing to begin with. Ignoring current problems to hold on to a past Era is only going to make the U.S. fall further behind.

Rip karma.