Popular opinion has had no impact on the culture of abortion in this country, except insofar as most voters don't consider it an important issue at all.
We didn't see a spike in abortion cases after any of the four or five similar murders in the last 20 years, did we?
Oddly enough, I think the single biggest factor in the decline of abortion in this country is the utter revulsion that most respectable physicians feel about the procedure. Many retired abortionists point to this as one of the key reasons why they got out of the business . . . they just had a sense that their peers in the medical profession didn't consider them "real" doctors at all. And rightly so.
> We didn’t see a spike in abortion cases after any of the
> four or five similar murders in the last 20 years, did we?
You misunderstood.
I didn’t mean to say that abortions would increase by Tiller’s murder, but that the pro-abortion argument would prevail for longer because of it, by way of marginalizing pro-lifers as murderous radicals as bad or worse than the baby killers themselves.
In the end, the inability of pro-life candidates to get elected to executive offices and appoint pro-life justices, the inability of pro-life judges to be elected where judges are elected, in the long run will cause more babies to be killed.
Now that Teller is dead, have any of his operations ceased?
No.
Have any of his abortion mills closed?
No.
Are any of his murderous peers likely to find something else to do, now that they have Federal Marshalls as body guards paid for by the tax payer, rather than having to hire their own?
No.