The god of the Old Testament is not the God of the New Testament

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What makes me say that? Well, mainly their respective relationships with 'their people'---the OT (Old Testament) god wanted his seed to produce, no matter what it had to suffer; the NT (New Testament) God wants his seed to produce IF IT'S READY FOR THE SUFFERING. I arrive at this conclusion after an argument with my "pro-life" cousin. His whole argument (in favor of States' anti-abortion laws that were triggered by a recent SCOTUS-decision) is 'God said don't kill.' My cousin doesn't cite 'the exact Scripture' he uses to reach his 'God says don't kill (and says life starts at conception)'-conclusion, but I think I can guess he's thinking of: "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb." (Psalm 139:13) That was Word that God gave to King David, one of his Old Testament people. I see that as God's lesson for his children that are still students; while his begotten Son Jesus (whom Christians believe is part of Our Father God Himself) tells us in the New Testament ... ... hmm; well, I thought I remembered something about Jesus saying that Our Father God hates it when we suffer. But the closest thing I can find was (remembering that He affirms that God is Our Father), ""You parents---if your children ask for a loaf of bread, do you give them a stone instead?"" (Matthew 7:9) But still, 'commanding us to force people to live on no matter how bad their suffering would be' makes the 'Old Testament'-god seem like more an Owner of us as his Slaves and/or Cattle, with the 'New Testament'-God being more like 'the father that's described to us in The Parable of the Prodigal Son'---the father who--after the Son had 'gone Prodigal' (taking his inheritance, disowning his father and/or being disowned by him, moving to a new town, wasting his whole fortune & becoming an impoverished, worthless slave)--welcomes his disowned son (though still not restoring his place as 'heir') with a grand feast on the fatted calf! This falls in line with my 'theory' (one inspired by Alan Horvath's report of findings from an apocryphal text) that the god in the Old Testament is not Our Father God (sort of like President Donald Trump is not President Joe Biden). And it sorta makes sense that my cousin takes 'the former god's words' as "Law," because--though my cousin doesn't support the rioters of January 6, 2021--he does wish that Trump had remained President---ramming-through the rules he thinks are "right," without regard for 'the suffering of his people.' (the photo might overplay God's abortion-approval a little---no one loves abortion, but women are blessed to have that choice)