Keep the babies coming. But once they're out of the womb, they don't give two shits about them.
This is my biggest issue with it.
I'm pro-life as well, but not anti-abortion. I personally don't think that being pro-life is a bad thing. I know women who are both religious and non-religious who are anti-abortion simply because it's a human life. And even on the left, that's hard to reconcile.
But the main point is- Rowe V Wade happened.
And Republicans spend more time trying to circumvent Rowe V Wade and abortion rights, while not giving a damn about other better options.
My stance on it is, the Woman's right to chose comes first. Period. And your post highlights why Republicans are a joke when it comes to the pro-life conversation. They wanna pretend Rowe-V Wade didn't happen, bitch when they get shot down, cry about the baby's life, and then when approached with other solutions like free and easy access to protection, education, and social programs for women's health and life? HELL NO. Why?
It costs money. Even if a little.
I was born and raised in the evangelical south and it was always "You gotta save those babies lives! But I don't wanna pay for it!!". Like, you gotta fuckin PICK something, righties. It always pisses me off when folks on the right sees a clear issue, are given multiple ways to address it, but always default to -NOTHING- because all the other answers violate some stupid core republican belief.
We saw that yesterday. White dude kills and injures hundreds for no clear reason. "That's the price we pay for LIBERTY! Don't you take my guns!" It's fucking shameful and irritating.
Let these women have the right to chose, pay for the nation to have free and easy access to basic protection, both male and female, increase education in middle schools, and help provide teen moms with support so it isn't so life crushing. Etc etc etc
And the left is pretty interesting in this issue too. Pro-lifers are shamed for being "anti-woman" almost instantly. If you're a man, you shouldn't get a say (which is hard to argue because of how embarrassingly BAD men in office handle this stuff). And if you're a woman, it's "Patriarchy and internalized oppression!" (Which again, carries some legitimacy, though it's debatable how much exactly). One of my best friends is Atheist, but humanist as well. She has two children, refused to get abortion simply on the grounds of life. I'm Atheist as well, and my beliefs aren't religious in nature.
Is it really that black and white? Can people not be concerned with the life of the baby, while caring for the woman's right to choose as well? Shit, republicans believe it's straight up a baby at the moment of conception which is so goddamn laughable. But is having a conversation about reasonable limits to abortion for the sake BOTH the woman's right to chose and the right of the child's life really off the table? Of course, 20 weeks is not a reasonable limit as discussed in this thread, but actual limits that can appease both? Remember, there's a lot of DEMOCRATS that are pro-life too. Wasn't Hillary and Tim Kaine Pro-Life? IIRC, Hillary was for term limits, but higher than what Trump is supporting.
Red and purple state Democrats that we could certainly use on our side.