If he had done this ten months earlier the Prog Socialist Left and Media would have made him a hero.
The vast majority of people who are pro-abortion have never witnessed one. They may be rightly horrified by the image of this baby being broken and torn in half. So why not if it was a pre-born baby? Answer: Ignorance.
I am absolutely convinced that if every pro-abortion person was compelled to watch a born baby being broken, torn to pieces, or stabbed to death, or poisoned, or burned to death with salt, and then was told, "Oh, by the way, that baby was about to be born, but was 'aborted'," that most of them would change their minds. Or maybe have a breakdown at the realization of the truth.
Support for abortion depends on ignorance of the facts of abortion.