Kathryn – Just to be clear I wasn’t necessarily saying it’s good news that this will change little of the political landscape but that I simply think it is so.

Though I should add I think the pro-life movement is now much more committed, publicly, to “life” issues across the board and not just abortion. Obviously this was largely the case before, but not so much in the public’s eye. How that affects the internal dynamics of the right and how the right is perceived politically in the long run I don’t know. But as for the electoral issues, I think this is largely a flash in the pan — at the national level.