well received seeing they would go on to pen several more hits and created soundtracks for several Hollywood films. Was it guts they showed by creating a protest song during the era of
great protest - The Vietnam War, the draft, Nixon impeachment hearings and more? I don't think so. They may have been more ridiculed for their new found religion of then, Baháʼí Faith,
than the song itself. Most agreed then - as they do today - abortion rights are a woman's rights no matter how you or anyone else feels about it. Seals and Croft protested that policy and were
no more disliked than Buffalo Springfield or Bob Dylan in their anti war protest songs.
I don't think the song was intended to target the Catholics or deeply religious - it was a song to all young women, a call to think before their choice
was made. More of a, slow down, see what you will miss anthem rather than a song about a woman is a bad woman for not seeing what they see.