Because, it costs more to heal women butchered in back-alley abortion clinics than to fund abortions in safe clinical conditions. Then there's the loss of life and the loss of the ability to ever again have children that used to occur when abortion was illegal and women were forced to go to abortion parlours. There are good reasons why Morgentaler fought for safe, state -funded medical abortion the way that he did, even being prepared to go to jail for his beliefs.