Agreed: this is a trial balloon for a run against Roe v Wade. I also concur with politicophile's assessment of the likely outcome of it.
Then to address the inevitable threadjack topic... I'm pro-choice, but I can respect where pro-lifers are coming from. I'd never want the choice taken away, but my personal choice in the matter, were it ever to come up, would never to be to abort an unborn child I had fathered.
But then, I'm in favor of people having the freedom to say things that offend me, too, so what the hell do I know.
Bottom line, though, in terms of effective social policy is this: abolition never works. It just sends that which you've abolished underground, where it flourishes just fine, thank you very much, while billions are spent in law enforcement to chip away at the edges. We learned that during Abolition! Look at drugs and prostitution, as two fine examples. Thriving industries, both of them. I'm not saying I'm in favor of blanket legalization of those things--just that rendering them illegal is tanamount to putting blinders on.