The real reason why abortion, contraception, homosexuality and gender identity rights were outlawed in most of the US in the 1940s was to increase the white population in those states at the time, and we long thought it was the religious right, esp. Evangelical Christian fundamentalism made those laws, and historians insist it was the turn of the (20th) century progressive feminists outlawed alcohol (Prohibition in the 18th repealed by the 21st amendment of the US constitution) along with prostitution or sex work, premarital sexuality (requires cohabitating opposite-sex/gender couples to register with marriage licenses), and child labor (to promote mandatory public school attendance), plus raising the age of consent, again the "puritan calvinist Protestantism" was blamed for such laws, even the prohibition of illegal or hard drugs like (formerly) cannabis was from the "old Left" on the US congress floor, but we all heard of the B-rated cult classic "Reefer Madness" was meant to be a PSA sponsored by a conservative church group whom attempted to prevent women from smoking cigarettes.