Judicial defeats often mobilize losing groups to shift their fight to other arenas.

Evidence

But for pro-life advocates, the battle had just begun. Roe galvanized pro-life forces, sparking a grassroots movement committed to overturning the Court’s ruling and opposing the spread of abortion.’ The pro-life forces sought to influence public opinion through picketing, demonstrations, and pray-ins-tactics learned from the civil rights movement. More radical pro-life groups, such as Operation Rescue, attempted to prevent abortions, descending en masse on abortion clinics and forcibly blocking access to the facili- ties. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 3120

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to broader scholarship on social movements responding to adverse court rulings by relocating to legislative and electoral arenas. — connects to: Institutions designed to divide subordinates instead create new arenas for struggle. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 632
• SEED: Angle: how movements borrow tactics across causes, as pro-life organizing copied civil rights tactics.