Ever wonder how abortion was originally outlawed in the US?
A large part of it is down to a guy named Horatio Storer, who would eventually go on to found modern gynecology. And his reasons for getting abortion outlawed in the second half of the 1800's and the reasons it's outlawed today are sadly similar: greed, racism, and a supervillainous level of misogyny which, frankly, makes me wonder why he chose a profession where he has to interact with women's bodies instead of doing something like going off to live in some male-only monastery in Outer Mongolia where he could make sure no woman got within ten miles of him.
Oh, and none of it was from a position of wanting to protect life.
The Greed
Most births at the time were handled by midwives. Doctors who treated pregnant women were looked down upon. So his solution was to demonize abortion, and then demonize midwives as abortionists, and then he and his fellow gynecologists could step in and take over an entirely open field of medicine.
The Racism
At the time, most abortions were done on middle or upper class white protestant women. Storer was afraid that if this trend continued, then the United States would be filled by Chinese migrants, freed slaves, and Catholics. The only real difference between him and the great replacement theory championed by the current presidential administration is that today Irish and Catholics are considered white.
The Misygony
In order to support his claims that midwives were unable to handle birth, he also had to claim that women in general were unable to know their own bodies. Abortion at the time was legal before the quickening, which is when a woman first feels movement. So he started to claim that a pregnant woman might not know when she feels her baby move.
And as for how we know he wasn't really pro-life? There's his book "The Origins of Insanity in Women", where he declared that if a woman was "profane or obscene, despondent or self-indulgent, shrewish or fatuous" - basically if she behaved in any way that Storer didn't approve of, which was just as a cash register - then the prescribed treatment should be sterilization.
Pretty hard to be pro-life if you think that a woman should be sterilized because she tells you to fuck off.