I have some dark thoughts about the Abortion issue.
In regards to women's rights, it's a power play. An outright ban affects women's choices in a myriad of ways. Some will have to live with raising the consequences of rape and incest, potentially when they are still children themselves. It could open up far more babies being available to the adoption industry, and / or unwanted babies becoming state property.
It will mean we go back to the time when a woman's sex life was everybody else's business but their own. Bear in mind hard-line anti-abortionists also campaign against birth control,especially hormonally based ones as it interferes with religious views about life beginning at conception, so preventing conception is bad because "God".
If abortion is banned and women give birth to more children with significant health issues, it generally takes them out of the workforce. Healthcare and support are already stretched to the limit, so this is where I struggle to understand the logic of everyone complaining about the cost of those who are perceived to be a drain on society, yet also demanding that forced birth, even in horrific circumstances is preferable, leading to lifetimes of financial and emotional suffering for both mother and child.
Law around abortion should always be framed as protecting women and allowing them to make choices between themselves, their healthcare providers and their God if applicable.
Bottom line is that the state, in terms if reproductive choice and freedom, should not be allowed to decide wholesale who lives and who dies. And criminalising abortion means more women die.
There is precious little pressure on men to choose how they disseminate their seed (hormone driven, can't help themselves, bless) but women are counselled to keep their legs shut, and even if they are pried open by an entitled man, even a relative, they should suck it up, accept their part in it by virtue of being a fertile woman, and go all Virgin Mary to nurture the possible offspring.
The alleged God some people want to appease created everything, ergo, He facilitated abortion. Let it be. Women are at the mercy of natural selection of their wanted offspring as it stands. Abortion rights should be let well alone, and those who have never been affected by it should butt the hell out if their motivation is purely to see women kept in their place. Goddammit, we are human beings and we deserve equal rights in every area, including bodily autonomy. This is a hill i would die on.
At the moment there is a growing and frightening zeitgeist that dictates the unproductive economically have almost zero value. If you're in that number, likely through no choice of your own, the world is a scary place right now.
The most astonishing thing about attitudes to humanity in general at the moment is how political rhetoric is encouraging out and out hatred of so groups that anyone of us could fall into on the roll of the dice. People always say "oh but we don't mean YOU" in those cases, but the cognitive dissonance is there.
Poor people, foreign people, disabled people are all being targeted as the reason for the world's economic problems, and those who point at billionaires and trillionaires serving their own interests are called jealous, paranoid, conspiracy theorists.
Left or right? I think we've got a problem too big for such simplistic terms.