I'm a mathematician, I'm practicing logic not hyperbole. If a fetus is a person, then there are necessary consequences, and this is some of them.

However, as mentioned in the caveat, the consequences won't be exercised logically. If you're rich and white, you'll probably skate. But only probably, the chance will be there. If you're poor and black, someone the churchstate wants to intimidate, or have prosecutor who wants higher office then the odds are good. It's already happened, there's no reason to assume it won't happen again.

The SCOTUS might overturn it: though there will be no logical basis to do so, the current Court is religious in the sense that they believe what they believe and to hell with everything else.

You may be right the abortion thing is pandering - as mentioned, I at least partly agree - but it doesn't pay to assume the religious right won't do something. Their whole agenda is stuff everybpdy figured was possible but they'd never do.