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I can't believe people aren't addressing this line of trivially disprovable bullshit (although I guess the capslock was distracting enough that you snuck it past them). Republicans' abortion restrictions are overwhelmingly unpopular nationwide, and the only reason this is even happening is because of 6 Republican SCOTUS justices who were (except for one) nominated under a POTUS who didn't win the popular vote (all three Democratic justices who voted against it though were nominated by ones that did win the popular vote).
Often within these shithole, backwards states where it gets banned, abortion is quite popular. For example, 60% of people support it in Texas despite it having been outlawed there. But bans are enacted anyway thanks to how unrepresentative of the voters state legislatures can be due to Republican gerrymandering.
In Florida, there's a ballot measure to revert a ban, but it may not pass because it needs 60% of the vote. Nonetheless, it's unambiguous that over 50% of people support the amendment.
Missouri, which has an amendment to undo abortion bans on the ballot, has 52% support. Last I checked, 52% means there are more people for abortion than against it.
In Arizona, the state's Republican supreme court ratfucked their way into reintroducing an abortion ban, and the legislature only just marginally by a few votes undid this despite only 20% of Arizonians supporting its criminalization before fetal viability.
You have no idea what you're talking about. And most importantly: this shouldn't be something left up to the states. Abortion is a woman's right, not something that should be up for creepy politicians to decide against.