Perhaps it is so important to so many because they see it as the fundamental issue that others spring from. If one can’t see sanctity in the most innocent, how do they truly find sanctity in anything else?
I’m pro life, but the pro life movement has played the shell game with this issue.
The traditional conservative position on abortion was that the Roe decision impeded States’ rights, and that the states decide their individual abortion policies.
These days, too many pro lifers expect a USSC decision that would outlaw abortion (bad idea), a Constitutional Amendment that would outlaw abortion (what happened to state’s rights?), etc.
I have the traditional conservative view - I’m against abortion but the states should decide their policy. This doesn’t seem good enough for modern-era anti-abortion fetishists. They move through life like wide-eyed dumbasses unable to make sense of their position. They make the rest of us look bad.