Another important difference, which has been mentioned, is that for the Left, civil disobedience is often largely symbolic: participants do not expect to be able to prevent any immediate violence, but rather commit civil disobedience to symbolically express their commitment. Because their civil disobedience is largely symbolic, groups on the Left can disregard, to some extent, the effectiveness of their actions in stopping violence and focus instead on the process by which they plan and execute civil disobedience. For participants in Operation Rescue, however, the point of doing civil disobedience is to prevent a real and immediate harm: abortions. The symbolic aspect of civil disobedience is much less important. Hence Operation Rescue is likely less concerned with the process by which civil disobedience is conducted and more concerned with the outcome of preventing abortions.
If you search for conservative civil disobedience, you will find actual research on this. It is an interesting article but takes a thinking cap.
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/AllCRCDocs/90-1.htm
The above is from their conclusion. For the libs, it is symbolic. Conservatives expect RESULTS when they do it. Won't the libs be surprised.......................
For individuals on the Left, civil disobedience is frequently justified with reference to one’s conscience. For Operation Rescue participants, however, civil disobedience is seen not as an act of following one’s conscience, but as an act of obedience to God. The word obedience recurs frequently.
Another interesting note from the article. We can now understand our founding fathers a little better.