TX Abortion Gambit Is Politically Insane

100% agree.

Of course people who are convinced that abortion is morally wrong don't think so tactically about this. Since I have no position, I basically see it as Scher describes it: as a great way to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. 

I'm not sure there are any actual must-win elections...but if there are, this is one. This isn't really Pubs vs. Dems; it's more like: Pubs vs. the antirational, antiliberal, evil spirits who have possessed the Dems and turned them into the Army of the Woke...