One could criminalize performing abortions without criminalizing seeking an abortion. Criminalizing performing abortions (and persuading/coercing others to have an abortion) would be a big step forward from where we are now.
So, why don’t we just punish the drug dealer and leave the drug user alone? If you work to put a dent into the demand, there will be downward pressure on the supplier and you can, then work, unabated, on changing the user, thus improving society and the fabric of this country. If abortion was made illegal, there needs to be consequences for both, if you really want to get to the root of the problem. It ia understandable why Trump was advised to walk back his answer. Mathews was talking over him and debating him, instead of being a journalist and interviewing him. The media framed the exchange and the phony pro-lifers backed them and there is nowhere else for Trump to go, except to play along.