See a lot of people being like “take a page from right/Republican anti-abortion activists, who made bold demands and saw victory!” but I think that overlooks that adopting the abortion issue was a way of pulling realignment for the GOP

Like, in co-opting Catholic and evangelical church structures it offered an established base both in the “white ethnic” industrial north and among the emerging white Southern middle class (this latter just as racial issues and the alignment of enfranchised Blacks with the Democratic Party offered a chance to crack the one-party “Solid South”), while encouraging unity across this confessional divide, whereas earlier religious politics aggravated it.

Like, that’s a pretty special case of things lining up right, as is the loudest abortion-rights types are Democrats already, I don’t see servicing existing constituencies in ways that brings no additional margin playing out the same