Thread title needs to be changed, and for obvious reasons. This has never been just about abortion. It’s always been about reproductive rights in general.
It’s comfortable, I suppose, to think of it as “well the right has evolved but abortion is still a red line…” but no, it’s not. The right is still the same shameless, hypocritical, morally bankrupt, intellectually primitive, superstitious and irrational lot that it’s always been.
Since this thread was started, states have moved to ban IVF, to defund (or essentially defund) Planned Parenthood even though they’d already banned the A-word two years previous, the Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill that would guarantee access to contraceptives as a protected right, a sitting Supreme Court Justice wrote in an (absolutely ghoulishly and piss-poorly argued) opinion that he wants to overturn the prohibitions on sodomy laws, etc.
This is plainly not about abortion. It never really was. It’s about sex and reproductive freedom, argued abysmally by puritanical religious assholes who view sex as exclusively a husband’s privilege/wife’s obligation, to be performed in missionary position and for the explicit purpose of producing offspring. They’re lying through their teeth when they tell you otherwise, and you’d be a fool to believe them.