"I feel, sadly, that should this happen, as a practical matter nothing much would change as no state would ban first trimester abortions, anyway." Why is it professing conservatives cannot get beyond kill or kill ... why must pregnancy termination supported with law be an automatic death sentence for the alive unborn. Cannot you or your associates see another way, to base pregnancy termination upon self defense for the woman and the right to remain alive for the alive unborn?
That's beyond the scope of what I was addressing. Make that be part of the debate when the people decide. But if we are going to be mature and principled conservatives, who have been saying 'leave it up to the states' for 30+ years now, we have to be prepared to honor the states' decision on the issue.
Either that or we will look like we were talking out of our @ss for 30+ years, and we don't want that.