Hey -- if you'll show me an electable pro-lifer, I'm in with both feet. Anyway, we're not going to eliminate abortion via executive fiat. Nor are we going to get an anti-abortion amendment anytime soon. We may win an incremental court ruling here or there, from time to time. Maybe.
So, am I saying "give up"? Nope. But we have to play within the bounds of "what's possible". I think a wise course would include massive PR campaigns on TV, billboards, etc., a la the anti-smoking campaign. It's taken 30 years; but the anti-smoking campaign has been very successful. Its tack has been to 1) point out the health problems, very graphic at times, 2) point out the social problems, saying that nobody wants to be around a smoker, 3) put smokers on a guilt trip, second-hand smoke and all, 4) ostracize smokers by denying them access to public places, 5) create smoke-free workplaces, thereby affecting people's livelihoods -- you get the idea. And, it's been very successful. Have you noticed that about the only demographic that still smokes, en masse, is the high-school-dropout crowd that lives in snaggletooth estates?
OK. So, why not shame abortion, abortionists, and abortion-users in commercials? Why not encourage entire hospitals to declare themselves "Abortion-Free Zones"? Wouldn't it be great if, as we escalated the anti-abortion campaign, the only people who, as a group, remained consumers of abortion, were the same dropout, dentally-and-mentally-challenged clientele, the ones who still smoke?? We might even secretly hope they WOULD abort. We might even punctuate the ad campaign with a proposal for "Free Abortions for All Liberals, Minorities, and Smokers". Maybe by then, people would catch on to what abortion is all about.
Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani can govern; and, for that reason, I am not going to write him off. If he's the standard-bearer, though, the VP becomes crucial, because Rudy might not live out his term(s); I am serious about that. His health is very much an issue.