Exactly.
Dogged pro lifers see this as a do or die scenario. If the GOP nominee can be pro-choice on the abortion issue, that means their fetish issue has been marginalized even within their own ranks.
If he wins, then it’s clearly the dominant national position, and they are further marginalized.
A Rudy victory pretty much would cement the idea that this is a pro-choice, pro-abortion nation. A bitter pill to swallow if you’ve spent the last three decades insisting that it isn’t.
I’m pro life, but I have said for a while on FR that the tide has clearly turned against many pro life values nationally. A good sized minority is against it, but I think a majority of that group nationally not passionately so.
Thee decades and 40+ million abortions probably means that all sorts of women have had abortions - churchgoing, atheist, republican, democrat, conservative, liberal, etc.
Sad to say, I think enough men and enough women are in the electorate that will keep first trimester abortion legal even in a post Roe landscape.
If all my eggs were in the pro life basket, I would be worried too.