Because it's an easy political win. Whichever side you're on, you can present it as the end of the world if you lose. Either you're killing millions of babies o

Because it's an easy political win. Whichever side you're on, you can present it as the end of the world if you lose. Either you're killing millions of babies or you're putting women in shackles. In reality most people want some kind of compromise on it. But the extremes get the voters out. Certainly the anti-abortion voters turn out in droves. (Abortion rights voters are kind of wishy-washy about it.) Most actually kind of liked the compromise that Roe put in place. But it was an easy thing to attack, and to demonize their opponents about. So they did.