"Go out with your friends, I will scrub the floor by myself"

Great grandmother said this to her teenage grandson Morry, "really, it's fine, go have fun."

Uncle Morry continued giving over this tale, "and at the thought of my grandmother, on her hands and knees, scrubbing the floor on her own, I couldn't bear it, so I stayed home with her and helped her move the kitchen furniture and scrub the floors."

Uncle Morry told me that story time and again, it was a lesson in psychology, given by a simple Jewish housewife, my great grandmother.

Sometimes you need not say much, and the point gets through.

So if some states ban abortion after 6 weeks or even 15 weeks, chances are that the rate of abortion will plummet even before those cut off points.

Even if the state is just making the statement, "abortion is only allowed here up to after 15 weeks, up til then, it is legal."

People will consider the unborn to be alive after 15 weeks, then ponder that the baby wasn't exactly dead until then.

And even the thought of an abortion earlier than that cut off point will make people cringe.

Just like uncle Morry did. He was allowed to go out with his friends, but he couldn't bear the thought.

You can continue to advocate for protection from conception, but a cut off point will stem even very early abortions.

It's simple human psychology.

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Traditional Judaism holds that sex should only happen in marriage, birth control should be used in only some circumstances, some forms of birth control are considered immoral, and babies and small children are a normal part of the community. Then you need not even hear about abortion, let alone ponder at what week gestation it should be allowed to occur legally, if at all.