Well, now that it's gotten serious, what we are seeing are rednecks gearing up for a bar fight.
There are three sides to this debate.
1. Pro-life
2. Pro-Choice
3. Pro-Abortion
And the more we see states do what Virginia did, and the more we hear rhetoric that lifts sensible restrictions (like 3rd Trimester when it won't harm the mother, or until labor, or until birth) arguments from the pro-Abortion crowd, and the more we see people (including senators) attacking the pro-life crowd, the more that side of the debate is going to escalate things.
Once the pro-Life and the Pro-Abortion crowd finish beating the shit out of each other by pushing the debate to an extreme, we can all go back to sensible abortion policies.
But until that happens, we're going to just have to deal with hearing redneck gibberish spewing from both sides as they insist that the other side can only be operating from purely evil intent.