This fundamentally misunderstands the actual Republican position, and it does so in the way that they are intending to trick you into doing.
If they cared about lives, they would protect schoolchildren. If they cared about lives, they would protect the poor. If they cared about lives, they'd care about death from car accidents, from Covid, from lack of medical care. They don't.
So it's not about caring about lives, trivially.
The right smears the left with similar accusations. Every time an illegal immigrants rapes/murders/etc. you'll see them accusing liberals of the same thing--not caring about children's lives, etc.
Part of that is caused by stupid conspiracy theories and scientific illiteracy, but partially because its pretty obvious the government does lie to use when they think its for our own good.
Though part of it is valuing individual liberty over a slight reduction in risk of death. They are more willing to value sending kids back to school even if it means some 80 years olds die a few years earlier.
If you don’t want an abortion, don’t get one. Can it be simpler?
The prolifers would respond sarcastically and say:
"If you don't want to murder your 8 month old, don't do it? Can it be simpler?"
If you can’t steelman any topic, you don’t understand the topic.
I don’t pick begrudge Republicans that actually believe and really feel the abortion has been terminating a human life unfairly.
I’m more begrudge Democrats that refuse to understand this is a nonfalsifiable issue. That we will never understand truly the point of which a thing becomes a human.
There will never be agreement. You need understand and accept that.
So given the choice between federally legal and federally illegal, where there will always be conflict, you could do worse than 50 state rules.
For all the rage that “some number of weeks abortion bans” in the certain state received, that is Germany’s every day. They have a 12 week ban with mandatory counseling. I have difficulty understanding how the same pitched here would get red eyed outrage from most Pro-Choice but Germans seem to be getting along.
I don’t think the issue is abortion, I think it’s just like everything else hyper-polarization.
I think it’s absolutely stupid that if I see you still wearing a mask in a store, that I can pretty much determine your views on abortion. We’re being played.