“The constitutional criteria for protection is whether or not it is a person, not whether or not they can feel pain.
The legislation is immoral and unconstitutional.”
True. But the status quo ante is even worse. I’ll take the baby steps.
But it’s not, in fact, baby steps. A) It’s not morally right to pass laws that say you can kill some innocent persons. B) It’s not constitutional. C) We have forty years of experience that tells us it doesn’t work, because you’re giving up the principles that argue against the practice of human abortion every time you pass one of these bills.
Wilberforce went through the same thing in the effort to end slavery in the British Empire. For decades he and his cohort in Parliament tried the compromise, incremental approach, until finally they figured out that it wasn’t right, and that it DID NOT WORK. So, they changed to a no-compromise equal protection approach, which very quickly prevailed. Without a civil war, I might add.