Dont get me wrong I hope to cast my vote for Fred in the GE. He gave me pause yesterday by not being for the HLA. My only two other concerns is clean out the closets now and how serious is his desire for potus.
Fred doesn't want to go the HLA route because he knows that it is impossible to get it passed. He noted that even with a Republican Congress AND a Republican President, we couldn't even get it done. He's looking to actually DO something about the issue, not just talk about it.
I guess the NRLC looked over the landscape, saw the same problem they'd had for the last 35 years, and came to the same conclusion. They see, as Fred does, that with a Republican President willing to appoint Justices who would overturn Roe v Wade, it would allow the States to place restrictions on abortions, which they have not been able to do because of Roe.