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Posted on 06/26/2026 7:40:56 AM PDT by Morgana
Four years ago today, Roe v. Wade died, predeceased by over 65 million preborn children. On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, overturning the ruling that had mandated legal abortion in all 50 states.
Within weeks, near-total abortion bans had gone into effect in Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. An additional four states — Georgia, Iowa, Florida, and South Carolina — now have six-week “heartbeat” bans on the books. Twenty-eight states ban abortion at later stages. All these laws were impossible under Roe.
That is the good news. The bad news is that abortion rates have gone up rather than down since Roe fell. The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research arm, estimates 930,160 abortions in the United States in 2020. In 2025, they estimated 1,126,000 abortions nationwide. This is up starkly from the lowest point since 1973, an estimated 862,000 abortions in 2017. Roe is gone, but the bloodbath continues.
A key reason for these grim numbers is the decision of the Biden administration’s FDA to temporarily lift the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone (the abortion pill) during Covid in April 2021, a change that became permanent in January 2023. Once people no longer had to go into a clinic or hospital to get abortion pills from a certified prescriber, abortionists set up a massive network of mail-order abortion pill dispensaries.
Biden’s Covid era rule — which the Trump administration has refused to rescind — has essentially nullified laws in pro-life states, permitting a network of abortion organizations to mail deadly pills from abortion states to pro-life states. This has triggered a series of lawsuits from pro-life states like Louisiana and Texas against abortion states like New York, which have in turn passed “sanctuary” laws protecting abortionists from being extradited and tried for violating state laws.
President Donald Trump has insisted that Dobbs sent abortion back to the states, which it did — in theory. But pro-life laws have been rendered largely unenforceable. Additionally, Trump has condemned heartbeat laws as “too harsh” and combined boasting about his first-term pro-life record with a refusal to work with the pro-life movement in his second term. The Trump FDA even quietly approved another generic abortion pill last year.
Abortion activists were also far more prepared for the overturn of Roe than pro-life activists anticipated. What came next was a series of bruising state-level referendums. Eleven states voted for constitutional amendments protecting abortion; pro-lifers won in Florida (narrowly preserving the state’s heartbeat law), Nebraska (voters approved a measure banning abortion at 12 weeks), and South Dakota (voters decisively rejected an abortion amendment). The victories — especially Florida — have given pro-lifers a playbook for future referendums, but the defeats were politically devastating.
Four years post-Dobbs, the battle lines have become clear. Surprisingly, despite a nonstop barrage of deceitful pro-abortion propaganda funded by the industry’s massive war chest and amplified by the mainstream press, public pro-life sentiment has remained relatively stable — and even increased slightly. On June 17, Gallup’s annual poll on abortion found that 42% of respondents identify as “pro-life.”
“The poll also found that a plurality of Americans, 49 percent, believe that abortion should be either ‘illegal in all circumstances’ or ‘legal in only a few circumstances,’” Dr. Michael New noted. “This represents a one percentage point increase from the previous year … Since May 2022, according to Gallup, the percentage of people who identify as ‘pro-life’ and the percentage of people who find abortion ‘morally wrong’ have both increased by three percentage points.” New added:
Additionally, the percentage who believe that abortion should be either “illegal in all circumstances” or “legal in only a few circumstances” has increased by four percentage points. Furthermore, polls conducted by Pew, Associated Press/NORC, and the Public Religion Research Institute also show gains in pro-life sentiment since Dobbs. … It should be noted that not one pro-life incumbent has lost a statewide election since Dobbs. This includes governors who signed strong pro-life laws. More important, this poll adds to a body of survey data that pro-life sentiment has rebounded in the past four years.
On the street level, pro-lifers must expand these modest gains and do the hard work of persuading the American public that abortion is a moral evil that should be banned. Debunking the constant claims that states cannot both protect preborn children and women is essential. On the suite level, the primary fight is stopping the flow of deadly pills from abortion states into pro-life states. Many states now protect preborn rights, but their laws are being violated with impunity. The pro-life laws enabled by Dobbs must be able to take effect.
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Sad fact though if put on the ballot, red states like Ohio vote to make abortion a right.
The demonic Roe v Wade decision in 1973 was a disaster for American culture. It accelerated America’s decine into neo pagan, hedonistic decadence.Many Americans embraced epicurean values and abandoned the behavior that once was at the core of a reasonable, unifying social consensus. Today many have no regard for the sanctity and real treasure of human life.It is so perverted that you actually have elected public officials and candidates who claim the the killing of preborn human life is “Christian” and a good thing.
It certainly was and certainly did. Many people don't/won't think for themselves. When the Supreme Court said it's OK to kill unwanted children, they went along. The same thing happened when the Supreme Court legalized pervert marriage.
The demonic Roe v Wade decision in 1973 was a disaster for American culture.
That was just piling on, after the introduction of “The Pill”.
And that voter-approved "right" is likely to be MUCH more liberal than the laws that once existed under Roe.
A lot of horrible stuff happened around this time. 1973 was also the year that homosexual activists bullied the psych profession into declassifying homosexuality as a mental disorder in all cases. That was gasoline onto the fire of the sexual revolution. AIDS flared up only a few years later. Church liberalization ramped up exponentially after that.
“The bad news is that abortion rates have gone up rather than down since Roe fell.”
And this is a surprise? All the defeat of Roe did was take any determination of its legality out of the hands of the federal government and put it back into the hands of the states who by the Constitution are in charge of health determination for their state. States have been responsible for public health since 1791, when the Constitution’s 10th amendment granted states any powers not specifically assigned to the federal government. The feds should never have been involved in health care.
So just because the feds are not in the mix, it is going to stop? I would think that without the overseeing of the act it would increase as it opens the door for more possibilities. The only problem is funding it. And that also is in the hands of the state.
wy69
It's still legal in the most populous states and then some.
With the exception of Texas.
If Trump came out and said the pill was wonderful and look how the leftist women wipe future leftists out with it, they would become the most ardent prolifers that ever existed and would call for the ban on the pill themselves.
So true, human beings are disturbingly murderous when we can “get away with it.” It gets discouraging, but, we must press on. Lives are definitely saved every day due to pro life efforts.
......the decision of the Biden administration’s FDA to temporarily lift the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone (the abortion pill) during Covid in April 2021, a change that became permanent in January 2023.....
It’s dangerous to the life of the woman to take mifepristone without a doctor’s supervision!
that’s her problem then
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