“The ‘state approach’ to abortion would be the most efficient way. You can’t have a Constitutional victory until you have 2/3rds of the States supporting, so if you start with a State by State approach, you can have immediate action while and know when you have enough to pull the Constitutional trigger, if needed. If you pull the trigger too soon, without having the 2/3rds of the States, you could kill the pro-life movement with a Constitutional loss.”
Yes, this is the logic of using an initital federalist approach. You isolate states that allow abortion. If states could decide, it would be a long fight, but eventually 75% would ban abortion in most cases.
However, there is one thing to remember about Fred on this issue. Fred is a real honest to goodness federalist. Even if there was enough votes to get a constitutional ammendment through in the future, Fred would oppose it on idealogical grounds. He thinks each state should decide, not the federal government (in the form of the rest of the states). He would leave abortion or homosexual marriage intack in states where the people of that state want it, even if 3/4 of state legislatures would be willing to ratify constitutional ammendments. That is the nature of a true federalist. So, it can come back to bite you.
One needs to understand what true federalism means and can result in happening.