Even most conservative pundits begrudgingly admit that the abortion issue is a losing issue for them and that a nationwide ban on abortion is unattainable, to say the least, as, quite frankly, very few people are actually concerned about the wellbeing of early trimester fetal tissue anymore. At the state level, the religious right have, unfortunately, made some considerable efforts to chip away at abortion rights, but banning abortion nationwide is, again, just an Evangelical wet dream. GOPers will always promise to put an end to abortion because they know that they will continue to get votes by making such empty promises, but then they won't actually do shit about abortion because, if they did, then what? I suppose that they can still threaten to lock up the gays and kick the brown folks out, but abortion is something that Evangelicals are much more passionate about than anything else and, since it's purely emotional from their side, they can be easily swayed by it. It's the classic carrot on a stick effect.
Plus, if abortion ever were criminalized at the national level, then how would Evangelical women abort their uncle/daddy's fetus or their boyfriend's fetus to cover up their "sin and degeneracy"? After all, a large percentage of the women who get abortions are Evangelicals and Catholics.
Not to mention, if abortion were outlawed, it would just create a huge demand for dangerous back-alley abortions on the black market. Roe v. Wade wasn't the beginning of abortion in America by any means. It was just the end of women dying from abortion in America. Conservatives always point out that, if guns were outlawed, it wouldn't stop people from obtaining guns (which is correct), but they can never apply that same logic to all of the things that they want outlawed.
