Many women (and some men) are so fanatical about abortion that this is really the only issue that matters for them. Whenever abortion is on the ballot, you can bet that they will get themselves to the polls, as the recent election in Ohio (a red state) demonstrated.
This is the main reason the "red wave" of the 2022 elections was blunted. The recent overturn of Roe vs Wade drove these fanatical people to the polls in huge numbers.
While the GOP eked out a victory in the House, it definitely cost them a good 30-40 seats, as well as clear control of the senate.
I will always be pro-life and will continue to support pro-life candidates but I have come to the hard recognition that many others are perfectly fine with killing babies and there is nothing we can say that will convert them.
So when conservatives make this issue the hill to die on, well, you see the results at the polls.
And, not even all conservatives want to outlaw all abortions in all circumstances. Many conservatives are in favor of exceptions such as rape, incest, and life of the mother.
There is no political support for absolute bans on abortion. I know some on this thread talked of how we have to stand before God someday and all that.
What would God say about someone such as me? I have volunteered and donated supplies and money to pro-life pregnancy centers. But I have voted for candidates who did not support absolute bans on abortion. So what will God way, when I am standing before him?
Are we required to abandon all political considerations, in voting, because of the abortion issue? Are we supposed to just accept political defeat, and thus cripple our ability to elect conservative candidates who can work for conservative values on other issues, because of the abortion issue?