Well, that would really depend on how far someone is willing to go to enforce their will on others, now wouldn’t it.
Incidentally, those men are dead, and the people that lived under their rule and their descendants no longer live under that rule, so in the long run, it’s fair to say that their efforts to control failed.
And as I have asked a number of times in this thread already, just how far are you willing to go to ensure that a raped pregnant mother does not seek to abort or manually abort the baby?
How far?
And if it’s “so far’ would that not in itself be a form of tyranny?
As far as is consistent with a non-police state. Just as was true for about a century before Roe v. Wade.