So, I wonder if the pro life movement died a bit after the partial birth abortion ban act. I mean, surely many people are just content with that?
I disagree for the most part. First, the pro-life hasn't really died, people have just been fixated on other issues lately. The type of people who would be content with a partial birth abortion ban are swingy moderates on the issue of abortion rather than part of the pro-life movement. Part of it too is that gay marriage has to some extent become a distraction from abortion as the most polarizing social issue. The general reaction against Christian morality that seems to be the popular trend has undoubtedly cut into the pro-life movement since the pro-life movement, for better or worse, is often associated with Christianity in the popular media. I certainly don't think the pro-life movement has been doing anything but awful at driving the media narrative surrounding abortion of late and anecdotally the last couple years don't seem to have gone well.
That being said, I can't imagine anyone who is pro-life and really values that position is content with a partial birth abortion ban. It just doesn't make all that much sense logically to believe fetuses are human lives, or deserve a chance at life, or some variation thereof, and decide that outlawing a practice that almost never happened anyway settles the issue of abortion once and for all when we still have about 800,000 of them annual in the US.
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