well keeping it legal does keep it out of back alleys but the argument about abortion isn't about order vs. anarchy.
my goal and your goal is for zero abortions to occure, so the question is do we create the kind of country where nobody wants one or keep marginalizing otherwise good conservatives over this issue and just stumble along hoping for something to happen?
Heck if Roe V. Wade is gone TOMORROW it's another 20 year of state by state legal battles, probably ending with a 50/50 split of states that do and don't allow abortions, so basically forcing people to take a grayhound who would otherwise not get one locally.
that's some great victory and in the mean time how many conservatives have gone down to defeat (or MUCH more likely gotten nowhere near power to begin with) because of this all or nothing view.
I want to state again that I don't want anyone to "give up" on this issue and that I also want no abortions to occure but I think the conservative movement as a whole and the republican party as a part of that movement will forever hurt it's objectives by dealing with it the way we have.
Historically, every good conservative candidate who has stood firm on abortion has done well. The last thing I want is a candidate who gives in on a fundamental core issue just so he can win. I don't want abortions minimized, I want them made illegal. I'd also like to make my case in the court of public opinion and the state legislatures, rather then have the Supreme Court shove it down my throat with one of the dumbest rulings this side of Dred Scott.