Really? Two whole generations? Which generations were those?
Would you rather talk about banning abortions in a country that will continue to use them? Making criminals out of the doctors and/or the women who choose to terminate their pregnancies?
I feel there should be an incentive for women who want to abort to put their babies up for adoption. That would be my most optimistic wish. But that's not happening so far. So what do women who absolutely do not want a/another child do? What then?
I agree with you that the Party needs to speak of more broad based issues.
The whole abortion dispute was put to rest in 1973 as far as I am concerned, and as long as far right Republicans insist on continuing to make this an issue, the left will continue to win elections in a more permissive society. You won't be able to put that genie back in the bottle. I find it ironic that the Republican party says they want government to be less intrusive but still want to legislate human behavior, not much different than the leftists. The far right is hurting the Party and needs to get the Independents back in the fray, as Independents are the true election deciders.
As I stated the Party should concentrate on the Economy and National Defense, both of which the left is failing at.