One of the main goals of science and medicine, from now forward, must be the invention of the ability to absolutely prevent unwanted conception to occur, without destroying the ability of individual men and women to ultimately conceive a child when they choose.
In the 1950s, science and medicine opened Pandora's box for all mankind. Remember that Pandora was a mythological girl who opened a box that contained all the hard luck and miseries in the world. As a consolation, the last "spirit" to fly out of the box was Hope. What science and medicine let out of the box was the invention of potentially reliable contraception. Prevention of contraception was now, for the first time in human history, reliably achievable by some women. These were (and are) women who were privileged with access to and knowledge of its techniques. But, for societal, political, cultural, logistical and practical reasons, this access and knowledge has not been universally distributed to all women.
Yet, even though the means of potentially reliable contraception has not reached the vast majority of women, after the 1950s a tidal wave of behavioral consequences has washed over societies worldwide. Specifically, the potential ability to prevent conception has freed up cultural taboos regulating the roles and potentials of women in societies.
In other words, the invention of potentially reliable contraception caused the psychic explosion, which has revolutionized the attitudes of men and women toward each other. This has occurred over the last 40 or 50 years, world-wide, even though unwanted conception is still happening everywhere, all the time, with horrific consequences to women, and therefore, to us all.
Science and medicine got us into this fix and they can and must get us out of it. No unwanted or unintended conception should ever have to occur in our world. To use the old cliché, if we can send men to the moon we can do this. How can this be done? I don't know, I'm not a scientist or doctor. Maybe I can start a small endowment for a foundation with this purpose.
Current means of contraception are inadequate in our world today because they place an undue burden on one gender, women, and that gender has been historically powerless and disenfranchised by men in societies. The way contraception works is that women are forced into the role of being goalies in a cosmic soccer game. They are compelled by current contraception techniques to be continually preventing their bodies from being conceived upon, from letting the other "team" score its goal. Meanwhile, men are simply shooting (sperm) toward the goal. Men's role in the cosmic contraception soccer game is ironically rather passive.
Science and medicine need to solve the problem of making sperm and egg inaccessible to each other, without chemical or physical side effects, and this process should be completely reversible without consequence. Also, governments and NGOs would need to support making this new gender-neutral contraception universally available to all the human species.
When we achieve this "new contraception", the need for abortion providers will effectively disappear. No woman or girl will be confronted with the need to make a choice to terminate her pregnancy, because unwanted conception will be a rare aberration. Morality and personal virtue will be unchained from servitude to biological determinism, and so will soar to heights heretofore unrealized.
"The war of the men against the women", that humorist James Thurber used to joke about, will cease. Peace between the genders will reign and its fruits will be adored and nurtured children in stable families; self assured and self-aware individual adults forming healthy, enduring relationships with each other; and the global alleviation of a generalized angst that has been plaguing all of us since the late 1950s.
Religions will go nuts for a while, sorting through the "new morality" that will result. Remember that during Rousseau's time a debate raged about the morality of a new biological technology, the ability to vaccinate people against smallpox. Many at that time argued that the newly invented vaccine meant science was going against God by preventing deaths that God would have otherwise ordained. It did not take long for the realization of the greater good of vaccination to quash the argument.
The Catholic Church, though it may struggle internally for a while, will in my opinion come around. It will see the good in a finite human population, maximally healthy and living to its full potential on a finite planet (revolving around the sun). The resources of our finite planet will be conserved and equitably used for the benefit of all. Children in families will be cherished and nurtured. Families will be valued and celebrated. People who choose to remain childless or single will be able to live as they choose, pursuing growth paths of spiritual and temporal usefulness and enrichment. In other words people will be "pursuing happiness" as they've never been able to before. What greater "Culture of Life" could there be than that?