It took a civil war and then a constitutional amendment to overturn slavery. All anti-abortion advocates are doing is passing laws that are blatantly unConstitutional with the hope that a conservative packed SCOTUS would overturn it. Which is not how our system was designed to operate.
It took so much to overturn slavery because 19th century Americans didn't want to give up their slaves just like 21st century Americans didn't want to give up their guns (which one was a legitimate human, both were considered property). Also, the North had incompatible geography for growing cash crops in enough mass to compete with the South. The Civil war was a
political and
economic issue - not an issue about morality, doing what is right, or treating humans like humans. Of course that worked to get abolitionists and their supporters (as well as some foreign support) to side with the North - everyone like a good story and human struggle. Finally (the juxtaposition),
slavery was justified as a biblical necessity - that the enslaved Africans were the sons of Cain, and were therefore under the subjugation of the alleged sons of Shem. (This justified the rape, murder, mutilation, etc. somehow...)
Abortion is an
economic and political issue; if we talk about abortion we are either talking about the exceptions that would make the religious reconsider its use (e.g. rape and incest), or we are told how it is one step in a series of health steps for women. It comes down to money and representation (economic and political)
Abortion is big business. A lot of money and jobs are made on the
medical practices that are directed at women's health - including abortion.
A barring of abortion
has been justified as a biblical necessity - that women who abort their children should be punished under the law of the land as well as the Law of the Most High God.
We are already in another civil war, and it should make sense that we would be directed to fight each other rather than an actual (yet massive) threat. It is a step in fully destabilizing a nation. It isn't hot yet, but lines have already been drawn, and we have allowed ourselves to be had once again. It is going to take another civil war to either solidify the strength of protections for abortion, or to completely deny it.
Either way, everyone will lose.