Abortion was first sold as being undertaken only early in the pregnancy, with medical safeguards for the mother, and to be used but rarely, with adequate counseling on all alternatives.
Then it grew into “abortion on demand”, i.e., for the “convenience” of the mother, at any stage up to and including actual delivery of the child (which was to be killed while still in the birth canal), and repeated as often as necessary for the continued “convenience” of the mother. To hell with this “counseling” business.
For some, it has become a ritual, the sacrifice to some pagan deity, for the expiation of real or imagined sins against “Gaia”. While there is “freedom of religion”, does this not approach criminal activity? Not just an approach, but actual engagement in a criminal act (the taking of an innocent human life)?
There is “free exercise” of religion. Human sacrifice is unfree exercise.
To clarify, unfree exercise of pseudoreligion.