“The Pro-Life movement adopted a position of Constitutional protections about the time they turned to a Constitutional amendment as a preference to overturning Roe v. Wade.”
the most popular ones simply repealed roe v wade. It may be easier to repeal roe via amendment than expect the SC to get its act together. At least it makes repealing Roe a national campaign issue and if that results in electing more pro-life conservatives then that can result in some good even if Roe isn’t immediately repealed.
That is *not* true. The realization may have come slowly to the national Pro-life mind, but the insistence came all-at-once, as socon impatience with the Republican party caused them to strengthen their demands wrt their organized support.
Just because the Republicans are trying to re-shape the socons by rejecting the ValueVoters for Saddleback, and trying to rollback significant issues like the Constitutional Life defense, and the Marriage Act, by offering less than rock-ribbed candidates on these issues, does not mean that the socons have forgotten.
In fact, I would wager that the Republicans will not win again because they refuse to toe the line for the Christian Right.