What these anti-abortion activists really objected to was sexual behavior outside of marriage. Therefore, interestingly, they did not condemn abortion for married women. However, they abhorred giving unmarried women the right to choose abortion since this would allow them to escape the consequences of what these activists saw as sexual license, and would thus encourage such promiscuity.
對女性團體而言，台灣過去反墮胎的聲音，是將性與生育等同，認為女人總是在無知狀態下進行性行為，因此婚姻關係下的墮胎很能被接受，未婚少女墮胎則大受撻伐。