When Operation Rescue and similar groups engaged in direct action to flood the abortion mills with pro-lifers who wold de-sterilize everything in sight, break raw eggs in the suction machines and resist any efforts of law enforcement to extricate them so that the killing might continue, National Right to Life Committee and similar "respectables" ran for the hills and could not disassociate themselves quickly enough from actual effective action lest pro-life contributors be spoiled by even a meager degree of success.
When it became obvious that the "respectable" pro-lifers had no stomach for being arrested inside the Planned Barrenhood death camps, the Clintons and Big Murder responded with the infamous Federal Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) and effectively shut down Operation Rescue by threatening its practitioners with fiscal ruin. NRTLC responded by thanking their lucky stars that the Clintons were able to stifle direct action against abortion.
No less an authority than the Alan Guttmacher Institute (Planned Barrenhood's wholly owned tax exempt "think tank") found that on Rescue days, fully one out of every three babies scheduled for slaughter at a "Rescued" abortion mill would eventually be born alive.
Big Murder and Pro Life, Inc. agree: Better to send out more fund-raising letters and fatten the cofers, the pay checks, the pension plans and, if Big Murder can sell enough dead baby organs, to fund the Lamborghini purchase account.
Eight years from now, we will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Roe vs. Wade (Roe vs. Western Civilization? Roe vs. America? Roe vs. America's Future? Roe vs. [fill in the blank]). National Right to Life will be as inclined as Planned Barrenhood to break out the funny hats and noisemakers and to pop a case or two of bubbly.
I don't recall National Right to Life Committee praising the expose by James O'Keefe of Planned Barrenhood's sale for profit of the organs of the babies they have butchered. Golly, how would the respectable middle class neighbors of the NRTLC officials react in revulsion to actual effective pro-life activity?
I have said it before and I will say it again, they "hate" each other the same way Tom and Jerry did in the old cartoons.
They BOTH understand that they need the threat of the other in order to raise money, an actual "victory" for either side would cost them billions.
In the early 19th century the abolitionists goal was to END slavery, not regulate it, scale it back or anything else. Just end it. Ending abortion has NEVER been the goal of Pro Life, Inc., their goal has been to keep their organization relevant by continually pushing "and then you can kill the baby" laws that sound good in press releases and fundraising literature, but have never actually saved a single life.