The only time that ‘you can’t get there from here’ is really true is when driving on the streets of Boston! :) The fact is, people often get what the demand, if they demand it forcefully enough. The reason some other countries don’t face the ‘abortion issue’ in every election is because it has been decided already by a national vote. Yes, that vote may come up again, in five or ten years, but that issue does not continue to linger or to obfuscate every election.
The only way people can get what they demand in this matter is through presidential elections and hoping for openings on the court to be filled with proper justices who can read the Constitution. Seven unemployed lawyers in black dresses set out a law in clear violation of constitutional principles, violating every notion of “representative government” and the result has been the legalized murder of 50 million Americans and an unsettled government ever since.