We must ask: is the pro-life cause dramatically set back by Fr. Pavone, making him and his brand of zealotry  part of the problem, not part of the solution? 

Fr. Pavone might be arrogantly mocking Catholic moral teaching by declaring that ends justify means, a conclusion antithetical to moral teaching.  

Is the goal fewer abortions or is the goal  the repeal of Roe V Wade?  Does the latter assure the former in post  hoc ergo propter hoc fashion?