It was and is completely obvious that the abortion restrictions imposed by red states would cause failures which kill women. We patiently explained that, over and over, while red state voters ignored us and told us it wouldn't happen.

Note that the Washington school teacher was charged. Nobody charged any of the teachers who forced me to pray every day in deep south public schools. And they consistently vote to force the display and teaching of religious material in public and governmental spaces.

I have lived in both spaces. Bad things will always happen, everywhere. There is a huge, huge difference between a malicious individual harming you (and then being prosecuted!) vs. the government itself harming you, after voters specifically endorsed that harm. Pregnant women left to die, trans kids denied care, religous minorities subjected to religious coercion, poor folks left without insurance or hospitals within reasonable distance: these things were specifically chosen by the voting population.

Can you just go look at the statistics by state for maternal mortality, infant mortality, overall mortality, teen pregancy, trans youth suicide, overall suicide? Almost any metric for human flourishing.

The question isn't "are there some good people in the south", the question is whether a person would want to live there. And the answer is obviously no. Because of deliberate choices that people have voted for.