Conservatives care because if they can succeed in socially reducing women to their reproductive functions, they will be able to get away with it legally as well. We are already seeing it happen in red states, and I guarantee abortion is just the beginning. It wasn’t even 60 years ago that women were routinely turned away from universities and STEM jobs that paid livable wages, and weren’t even allowed to open their own bank accounts without a husband or father doing it in their names. Conservatives want to go back to a world where all AFAB people have no identities other than being incubators and property of men.