Moves on Abortion

There's a slow effort to overturn Roe vs. Wade underway, and it has little to do with the confirmation of John Roberts. An article in the Post gives some details of the antiabortion movement's methods:

Antiabortion activists say they have pursued a two-pronged approach that aimed to reduce the number of abortions immediately through new restrictions and build a foundation of lower court cases designed to get the high court to eventually reverse the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision making the procedure legal.

I think the language used both in this account of the movement's goals and Hillary Clinton's famous remarks on the topic is misleading - while the publicly stated objective of these folks is to "reduce abortions," a closer reading of the right's various newsletters reveals a certain subset are absolutist in their rejection of abortion, to the extent that they don't accept any health exceptions to prohibitions on abortion. It would be a mistake to try compromise with this sort - they'll keep fighting you until the center moves totally into their camp.