When's the last time attorneys appealed the case of an executed murderer or rapist? The longer these murderers and rapist live, the more money to be had from the government. It doesn't matter that there is no chance of a new trial or reversal. There's money to be taken from the government coffers.
It also doesn't help that most, if not all state and federal prisons housing the convicted rapists and murderers facing execution are operated by people that would lose their jobs if the prisoner population were reduced by executions. I know a few prison guards personally. They talk very conservatively until the subject of reducing prison populations by carrying out executions is put on the table. They start talking in circles at that point. When their livelihood could be jeopardized they sound an awful lot like the ACLU.
Abortion also has vested interests on both sides. It's an issue that gets many "pro-lifers" elected to Congress, but why don't they ever introduce a Constitutional Amendment barring or limiting abortion? Their hands aren't tied. There's no limit to how often amendments can be introduced. Such an amendment could have been introduced every year since Roe v Wade. Why haven't they? Why have there been so many amendments proposed the last couple decades to protect the flag, an object, yet amendments protecting the lives of the unborn are curiously absent? Doesn't that make you wonder?
Good point. I guess they know they don't have the votes? Or is it something else? Not really committed? But if it would get them votes don't you think they'd introduce legislation to do just about anything?
I think you have to get rid of abortion by changing minds, not laws. I'm uncomfortable with Roe as law, but also as a law banning abortion.