"Outlawing" Abortion

I've never understood the line about the pro-lifers that will make the Supreme Court "outlaw" abortion.  Or at least, it's hard for me to understand precisely why people fall for this.

See Newtown and Abortion.  Note: Many
 Democrats are pro-life.

First of all, legal abortion was widespread before Roe vs. Wade.  The Court decision was a way for the federal government to dictate a policy for all the states rather than let them decide the issue for themselves.  The decision was a bit of judicial law-making that made restrictions on states.  Reversing Roe vs. Wade would not in and of itself make abortion any more or less legal.  It would allow the people of each state to decide whether it was right or wrong.

What allows this confusion, intentional or otherwise, are the "trigger laws" that state legislatures (the voice of the people within various states) have passed in case Big Fed ever lets them determine this on their own.  The "loophole" to consider abortion a crime is written right into the ever-revered sacred Roe vs. Wade decision itself.

There is a lot of opposition to personhood legislation within the pro-life community.  (More on that here.)  The arguments are various but mostly I think it has to do with the simple fact that American society is too hardhearted to accept it.  It diverts political energy away from less ambitious legislation that has a chance at succeeding.