Thank you, National Pro Life Alliance and Senator Rand Paul.
One thing that is remarkable is the astounding stupidity of the Pro-Life movement in not pursuing incrementalism.
The same approach was used against slavery - first banning the import of slaves, then preventing new slave states - of course, that wasn’t incremental enough for the South, but Lincoln was savaged by Radical Republicans for not moving faster. The Emancipation Proclamation just freed slaves in states in rebellion, not everywhere. It was pursuing politics as the art of the possible.
The correct way to go after abortion is to whittle away a tiny bit at a time at the latest legal time in the term an abortion is allowed, and getting enough Republican Presidents elected to get enough justices to overturn Roe v. Wade.
An important additional strategy is to get EVERYONE in the movement and every associated candidate to STFU about their true feelings about abortion in cases of rape and incest, and simply flat out lie - for now. If you feel that strongly about abortion the ends justify the means, and if shutting up about opposing rape and incest abortions (which are rare) helps you win office and whittle down the total number of abortions, it’s a win.
That strategy, I suspect, still won’t work, but it has a chance.
What DOESN’T have a chance is going for the whole enchilada at once persuing Personhood stuff. Once the full implications of it become known, it has no chance politically.
You’ll never, ever, convince the majority of the population that a fertilized egg they can’t see is a baby.