That's like saying that mugging is not an issue that may be solved in the legal or political arenas but by the Church.
What is the function of civil law in the first place? Does not the State have the obligation to protect the innocent and to punish the guilty, and not the other way around as it currently stands?
Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" But they remained silent.
However, the frantic rhetoric of the grandstanding protesters must go.
Easy for you to say - you've already been born. I think if you were, God forbid, about to be chopped up you wouldn't mind at the very least a little frantic rhetoric from someone trying to save your skin.
Cordially,
The problem is that the invasion of privacy required to adequately regulate abortions are ridiculous. An abortion may be accomplished, in the first few days, by a large dose of birth control pills. I have been told that there are few women who are unaware of that - and this has reduced the numbers of abortions in the US.