Not to pull the America card, but the world isn't fucking obsessed with individualism and freedom like Americans are. The whole self determination thing. Putting any restrictions will eventually have that restriction tested. Do a 16 week ban, ok what about this women who is going to go septic if she doesn't have a medically induced abortion at 18 weeks? We just gonna let her die cause the magical rule book said so? No politician is touching that and surviving. We are seeing it everywhere in the US. Each state where it goes up, it passes. The GOP is not trying to federally take individual freedom and that is a losing message.

But that's not what they're getting from the GOP. They've run so hard on banning it outright that going away at all pisses off their monied evangelicals. It also only takes one story to change that viewpoint. One woman dying from unnecessary complications caused by that law immediately leads to a political upheaval and the GOP is on the losing side. You'll start seeing more GOP in purple states begin leaning into agreeing it should be an individuals right cause that issue is not a winner.

Not many love it but it's a compromise.

There's no incentive for Democrats or liberals in general to compromise when they are holding the winning hand.

It wasn't a losing hand for Dems ever. that's a false assumption. Because Roe protected it there was no fear to use, but now that Trump's lying stolen supreme Court seats overturned it, it's become a top 2 issue and the GOP is avoiding it like the plague where they can.

I live in Ohio and every attempt to stop it has been met with voters clearing saying no to the GOP. No negotiation, no restrictions, no legislation on bodies. An attempt to change the rules failed, adding reproductive rights to the constitution passed with a clear non-objectable majority (58%). The GOP is now playing the "I mean it's whatever, we don't care" card while trying to find a legislative way to override the voters constitutional vote.

The GOP is reeling. The dog caught the mail truck and doesn't know what to do now that conservatives have realized they actually don't want restrictions. It's THE losing platform which is why the GOP is simply screaming about brown immigrants or trans people existing.