Why can't republicans acknowledge the fact that they've lost on abortion?

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Uh, because they haven't lost:

- If a liberal SCOTUS justice dies before 2020, Roe can be overturned.

- The Hyde Amendment, Parental Notification and Late-Term restrictions are still very popular and even have significant support among Democrats outside of the party leadership.

- A 20 week ban generally polls at over 50% support.

- A lot of their voters really care about the issue.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I don't like abortion, should strongly be discouraged and people given every opportunity to not do it (adoption, etc) but it's also amusing to tell Republicans it's freedom to allow it and you're taking away people's freedom to ban it. Makes their heads explode.

Again, without some sort of compromise that almost no one would really like, this is going to almost always be an issue in a unified United States.

And even then, it would only go away if it became illegal to talk about the issue.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I don't like abortion, should strongly be discouraged and people given every opportunity to not do it (adoption, etc) but it's also amusing to tell Republicans it's freedom to allow it and you're taking away people's freedom to ban it. Makes their heads explode.

Again, without some sort of compromise that almost no one would really like, this is going to almost always be an issue in a unified United States.

And even then, it would only go away if it became illegal to talk about the issue.

You mean that literally, seriously (where abortion became a really fringe topic), or both?

Literally.