Guest post by Janet Morana, Executive Director of Priests for Life
The abortion landscape in the U.S. has changed dramatically since that historic day three years ago when Roe v. Wadewas overturned, twelve states protect nearly all babies from abortion and another four declare abortion off-limits for children in the womb once their beating hearts can be detected on an ultrasound.
While it’s true that abortion profiteers have set up shop in towns and cities that border abortion-free states, recent studies have shown that fewer mothers are traveling to abort their children. Some are staying home and receiving deadly abortion pills sent through the mail – legally or illegally – but others are choosing life.
Every baby saved is a win for life.
Chemical abortion has become the most common procedure, accounting for more than 60 percent of all unborn deaths, but that could change. A federal lawsuit seeking to tighten regulations for the abortion drug mifepristone is continuing and could yet bear fruit. Mifepristone is one of the drugs in the two-pill regimen we used to call RU-486. Its inventor died recently, with more blood on his hands – and his soul – than I can even contemplate.
Even more promising than the lawsuit is a vow from Health Secretary Robert Kennedy to have the new head of the federal Food and Drug Administration perform a thorough review of mifepristone, in light of new revelations that the risk of mothers ending up in an emergency room or suffering other adverse events after the painful, lengthy and bloody ordeal is much higher than has been acknowledged.
Another just-released report estimates that 30-40 tons of hazardous medical waste, including human remains, are being flushed into U.S. water systems from chemical abortion. Environmentalists, take note!
Three years ago it might have seemed impossible that mifepristone might actually be taken off the market, but the day the U.S. Supreme Court formally issued its opinion in Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health, I understood that anything is possible. Seeing Roe overturned has been at the center of my life’s work for nearly 40 years.
Of course we have much more to do to ensure that every baby enjoys the right to life guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution but the signs are encouraging, including these recent headlines about Planned Parenthood, the nation’s number one abortion seller:
Planned Parenthood to close 8 centers across Iowa, Minnesota amid federal funding cuts
Dysfunction, turnover at Omaha Planned Parenthood clinic further limiting abortion access in Nebraska
Abortion clinics are closing, even in states where abortion is legal
Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis
The cause of much of Planned Parenthood’s recent angst is President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which – if passed as it exists today – would strip abortion providers of Medicaid reimbursement funding for 10 years. The bill has passed the House; all eyes are on the Senate now. We need 51 senators to vote in favor, and the chamber is dominated 53-47 by Republicans. Even if pro-abortion senators Susan Collins of Main and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska vote against the bill, we still have the simple majority we need – and we always have Vice President J.D. Vance willing and able to break the tie, should one occur.
It’s true that the passage of pro-abortion constitutional amendments in several states last November was a setback but pro-life groups have not folded their tents and gone home. In fact, pushback from several of those states, most notably Missouri, could see the amendments repealed in subsequent elections.
For nearly 50 years, pro-life lawmakers at every level of government were stymied in most of their efforts to protect babies and their mothers from abortion and the unscrupulous industry that profits from the fear that can accompany an unexpected pregnancy.
But the historic Dobbs decision of June 24, 2022 (and the leak of the opinion a month earlier) has allowed pro-life Americans and their elected representatives to pass meaningful laws that underscore the humanity of the child in the womb.
We have President Trump and the three justices he nominated for the Supreme Court during his first term to thank for Dobbs, a decision that cleared a path for those of us devoted to the sanctity of life to achieve our ultimate goal: Making abortion unthinkable.
Janet Morana is the executive director of Priests for Life and the co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign. She is the author of Everything You Need to Know About Abortion – For Teens.
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