Their stance is that abortion is killing babies. If that’s what you believe, it’s easier to get out of bed to stop baby murder than to help make child care more affordable.

That's the trap of America, All of the third world knows the type of logic America is founded on. Keep the servants weak so you can rule over them. They make the rules, and they make the loopholes. This sets the culture, which in turn creates morality. Unfortunately for them, we know their law is not based on ethics.

Legal basis? With enough mastery, it can be whatever you want it to be.

Because most conservatives believe that charity is a private, not government matter.

This is could be a reason that religious folks and conservatives donate much more to charity, even though their income is less [1].

For cases like childcare, they believe that burdened families are best served by a close community coming together to help each other, rather than government programs.

[1] https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/resource/statistics-o...

> and the only thing that conservatives get out of bed for is restricting abortion.

They get out of bed for denying care that empirically has a massive effect of reducing suicide for trans people, too.