No effect on abortion rate

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Republicans claim to be antiabortion. This raises a question in my mind: When we had a Republican president and Republicans in control of Congress, why weren’t abortions made unlawful? Also abortions should have decreased. But abortions actually increased during the last eight years. It appears that electing people who are opposed to abortions has no affect on the abortion rate. So we need to vote on some other basis than what the candidate believes about abortion.

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