Day-after pill allows individual moral choice
The abortion problem is more of a social and moral issue than it is a legal one. If we are ever to have fewer abortions, society must change. The law will not accomplish that. However, that does not mean that the states shouldn't be allowed to deal with abortion. Very early pregnancies and victims of rape can be treated with the day after pill, which is nothing more than using birth control pills in a special manner. Such circumstances would be dealt with by each individual making his or her moral choice.
Source: Liberty Defined, by Rep. Ron Paul, p. 5 Apr 19, 2011
And this:
Get the federal government out of abortion decision
Q: If abortion becomes illegal and a woman obtains an abortion anyway, what should she be charged with? What about the doctor who performs the abortion?
RP A: The first thing we have to do is get the federal government out of it.
We don’t need a federal abortion police. That’s the last thing that we need. There has to be a criminal penalty for the person that’s committing that crime. And I think that is the abortionist. As for the punishment, I don’t think that should be up to the president to decide.
Source: 2007 GOP YouTube debate in St. Petersburg, Florida Nov 28, 2007
The majority of abortions are performed in a handful of very liberal states like New York and California, these states will NEVER ban abortion if given the choice. Nearly every person in America lives within a day's drive of a state that will keep abortion legal at any cost, there is no reason to believe that the state-by-state approach will save even a single life.