I disagree. The current method of gradualism by the anti-abortion movement has made tremendous inroads against the practice in most of the US. It is a simple strategy: if you are consistently winning by placing small bets, why wager on an all or nothing bet? Your odds will actually go down if you do. The last thing the anti-abortion movement should do is try for a federal solution.
The pro-abortion movement won big at the start in an all or nothing bet at the federal level. But since that time, they have been getting massacred in a “death by a thousand cuts” at a local and State level.
Ideally, the anti-abortion movement just plays defense at the federal level, and continues to win at the lower level.
The real enemies of the anti-abortion movement *within* the anti-abortion movement are those that insist on a clear and decisive emotionally charged win. Instead, those who want to end abortions don’t care how much it *feels* like a win, as long as abortions stop.
So what is the priority? To feel like you have won, or to actually win?
By what standard? I'd hardly call the statistical drop of late "temendous."