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It’s fashionable in certain circles on the Right to degrade pro-lifers as dangerous absolutists at worst and electoral liabilities at best. The matter is settled, they claim: America is an abortion-friendly nation. Resistance is, if not futile, deeply impractical. Better to concentrate the movement’s efforts on winning hearts and minds.