As they gathered Tuesday for a national strategy session, anti-abortion activists faced an unexpected revolt in their own ranks.
Some of the biggest groups in the movement, including Focus on the Family and National Right to Life, are under attack from fellow activists who accuse them of turning the cause into a money-grubbing industry.
Those groups have raised tens of millions of dollars and trumpeted victory after incremental victory in the 34 years since Roe v. Wade legalized abortions. But nearly a quarter of all pregnancies in the U.S. still end in abortion. Deeply frustrated, several small anti-abortion groups have launched a campaign to force their movement to an absolutist position: no more compromises, no more half-steps, just an all-out effort for an all-out ban.
Lotsa luck with that. Most people simply don't want to criminalize abortion. It didn't work before, and it wouldn't work now.
