Before Dobbs, what were anti-abortion activists doing to prevent abortions?

https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2023/05/so-what-were-anti-abortion-activists.html

They had the power and resources to do an awful lot. The evidence suggests that they were more interested in the political advantage they could gain rather than the "Christian" aspects of the issue.

If the old saying is true, that your checkbook reflects your priorities, then that's quite telling. The amount of resources that goes into the entities and social service agencies belonging to religious institutions, mainly the Catholic church and various Protestant churches, that have the capacity to deal with issues touching abortion is a fraction of what the same people spend on the debt load of the loans on the church buildings where they meet each Sunday. So it's easier and cheaper to get the government to do the work.

And that says an awful lot.