Reading more into it, it seems like Democrats have moved away from the phrase "safe, legal, and rare" because they don't want abortion to be something that people apologize for or feel bad about. It's purely a messaging thing, not a policy difference. So I don't get the people who are saying, "I'm a moderate, I believe abortion should be safe, legal, and rare."
The phrase "safe, legal, and rare" was just a mushy expression from 90s centrist Democrats intended to placate the diverse wings of the party on abortion at a time before abortion became polarized along party lines. It never had much substantive policy value even then, and it is incredibly problematic to people on both sides of the abortion debate now. The "rare" part specifically implies to pro-choicers that abortion is a practice that should be discouraged and creates a contradiction to pro-lifers ("If there is nothing wrong with abortion that it should be legal then why does it need to be rare?"). It's a way of thinking that doesn't hold up in our current political climate, and the people saying that Democrats need to get back to that are missing much of the phrase's context.
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