Republicans' drive to end safe, legal abortions, and eventually abortion pills and contraception, represents their need to control women, to the point of keeping them from having sex. By the late 70s, the GOP figured fighting civil rights and anti-discrimination efforts for Black and brown people wasn't the electoral boon it once was, so they focused on "Christian morality" issues to win elections. Reagan knew it, and so did virtually every Republican since. Women are the GOP's natural enemy, unless they fall in line with the Republicans' white male, corporate dogma. The growing fight to keep sex workers criminalized is just another effort to control people's genitalia and win elections. The only sex Republicans support is missionary between a married het man and woman to create more behbehs, except when Republicans lurk in their fetishized sexual shadows and privately engage in activities they publicly want to ban.