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It's not that simple, but a good point anyway
I don't think that it's remotely plausible to think that concessions will end conflicts about abortion. Incremental regulations of abortion are part of a very conscious, longer-term strategy to re-criminalize abortion in as many jurisdictions as possible. Such compromise legislation may not encourage anti-choice mobilization per se, but nor is there the slightest reason to believe they will make the conflict over abortion go away.
This isn't merely hypothetical: the Supreme Court has explicitly permitted a broad array of abortion regulations since 1992, many states and the federal government have enacted at least some of them, and yet the pro-life movement remains powerful enough to have a veto over Republican presidential candidates. It is naive to believe that the pro-life movement would vanish if it were given even more ground. But this has nothing to do with concessions showing weakness; rather, it's a function of the fact that there's a significant pro-life minority in this country, and as long as abortion is legal, there is no magic formula that could make them go away.
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