I think of it a little differently. Proposed abortion laws don’t always make exceptions even if neither the mother not the child will survive. I think it’s just that they want to broadly terrorize and control women. A few people have brought up Handmaid’s Tale. That story is a disturbingly plausible dystopia of women being oppressed and their reproduction being controlled. What is the result for powerful men? They get to live out dominance sex fantasy of raping a young woman in front of their wives.
I’m not going to speak for the many people who vote for anti-abortion candidates who are a huge group that undoubtedly has a lot of variance. But for the leaders, I think they simply want to control women. Every facet of control is one more way women have to do what they want. It’s power and domination.
