My point is that they pay with their soul (or you can call it "integrity"), up front, and then maybe achieve a questionable goal.
An alternative explanation is that the stated goal (reducing abortion) wasn't the actual goal.
For example, if controlling/subjugating women was the actual goal, then more actions taken in the context of 'pro-life' activism makes sense.
Robin Hanson has his "Farmer v. Forager" framework to classify many things about which people disagree with respect to social ... policy.
I don't think anyone who isn't a bit ... off can openly promote subjugating women for its own sake; so it's a better story at least if there's a more rational explanation.
Then to begin with they had no soul.
Honestly, I expected more from him.