They criminalize women and doctors who believe they are making a responsible choice. They only make a difficult time worse. The religious right calls for abstinence as a solution to abortion. In their sick, lonely dreams. They seem not to know what Hollywood and Madison Avenue figured out long ago.
Sex sells everything from prescription drugs to boat motors because people like sex .
Once you've tried it, you tend to try it again. And, thanks in part to the same religious right, we still lack both safe reliable birth control and the knowledge to use it always if you wish to avoid pregnancy. That, along with open discussion about sex, would do far more to curb abortion demand than any pulpit sermonizing or legislation. We need sex education, in the schools and in the homes. The same parents who object to ceding that role to the schools often haven't noticed that TV has been teaching their kids about sex since infancy, generally with all the wrong lessons.