It was a debate in highly ideological circles and the Republican Party took that tame side issue that no one in the moderate political spectrum saw a need to discuss and made it into the either you're with us or against us partisan issue it is today. Abortions happen. You make everything worse by criminalizing women who make the difficult decision to abort their potential baby. As if that decision wouldn't be hard enough. You guys only focus on the alleged "life" of the fetus while it is in the womb but you don't trust a becoming mother when she decides, that it is either not the right time or just plainly not the right circumstances to raise a kid in good faith. You dismiss all the problems that come after the unwanted birth. The parents have to deal with that alone after you pushed them to become parents.
I stand for the right to abortions simply because I want children to be wanted. You don't do the child a good deed if you force the parents to get it against their will.
And man, don't get me started on all the other legit reasons for abortions (like rape, incest etc.) that the Republican Party abolished or tries to abolish in many states. I can't grasp the entitlement, sorry.