I liked your other thoughts in this post, but I want to focus on this quote above.
I'll concede it's not a slam dunk, but I'm going off my experience in Los Angless, which includes talking about PBA with manty Hollywood-types. Not a one of them can defend it, when we get down to the nitty gritty.
The only way the conservative position can lose, in my experience, is when you don't get down to the nitty gritty.
Hollywood actresses these days are increasingly having their babies at eight months via C-section, by choice, so that they won't put on those last 15 to 20 pounds. PBAs kill babies at even later stages than this. Everyone understands that PBA is infanticide, when they're confronted with the truth. Everyone.
I've gotta believe if that's true here, it's true everywhere.
This is one of those questions we won't be able to answer unless we attempt the action. Incrementalism is fine, at times, but there are also times to strike boldly. It's unwise to overrely on one tactic or the other.
The attitude of the nation, the numbers in the Senate and House with a Republican in the WHite House, and a different complexion in the SCOTUS, all are vital aspects in rolling back three+ decades of death on demand reality. Every time a case hits the news that focuses upon the LIFE of the little ones (like Connor Peterson), the tide changes ever so slightly. It will not be long before a wave will be poised to wash the liberal socialist approach to death on demand right out of our national reality ... the insidiousness of liberal societal engineering is gradually coming clear to Americans as the harvest of dead relatives becomes more exposed.
If there is sufficient good left in America, abortion slaughter on demand will come to an end, albeit an incremental end. The next goal is a ban on all killing of viable little ones. [BTW, Mercuria is still pro-life, without a doubt. What she says about me or anyone else at FR is actually irrelevant; she's wrestling with political 'spectres', that's all.]