abortion

Four Observations Since ‘Roe’ was Overturned Four Years Ago

When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, many Americans wondered if it signaled the beginning of the end for abortion or a push for a nationwide ban. 

Instead, the country has grown even more culturally and legally divided than ever before.

As we mark the fourth anniversary of the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe, four important observations stand out.  

1. Twenty States Have Acted to Protect Preborn Human Life

Dobbs empowered people and their elected representatives to determine abortion policy in their respective jurisdictions. 

In the last four years, 20 states used that power to enact laws protecting preborn children from abortion. 

Millions of Americans now live in states that provide legal protections for preborn babies which would have been impossible under Roe. Thousands of children are alive today because these laws are in place. 

2. The Abortion Industry Adapted Very Quickly

The last four years revealed just how dramatically the abortion industry is willing to shapeshift to remain profitable.

Abortion pills now account for approximately 63% of all abortions in the United States. Telehealth visits and mail-order abortion drugs have completely transformed how people gain access to abortions. 

Before Dobbs, most of the abortion debate centered on clinics and surgical procedures. 

Today, abortion policy largely revolves around chemical abortion, telemedicine, interstate mailing of abortion pills and federal regulatory authority.

As a result, the next chapter in the pro-life movement will likely focus on the growing use of chemical abortion pills and the legal and ethical questions regarding their distribution. 

3. The Battle for Life is Now at the Ballot Box

The last four years have shown that abortion remains one of the most contested issues in American politics.

Ten states have approved constitutional amendments enshrining abortion in their state constitutions: California, Michigan, Vermont, Ohio, Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, Montana and New York.

At the same time, pro-life advocates have secured important ballot victories in Florida, Nebraska and South Carolina, where voters rejected or defeated efforts to add abortion “rights” to their state constitutions. 

The pro-life community has experienced victories and setbacks in the post-Roe era, the pro-life community has experienced victories and setbacks, but so have abortion activists. 

Public opinion remains far from settled on this topic — and wins and losses are recorded at the ballot box.

4. A Majority of Americans Continue to Support Limits on Abortion

Though America remains deeply divided on abortion policy, Gallup’s May 2026 survey found that nearly two-thirds of Americans support some kind of legal limit on abortion. Only 33% believe abortion should be legal in all circumstances. 

The data also suggests that the initial bump for pro-abortion policy is waning. In 2022, 52% of Americans considered abortion morally acceptable. The number rose to 54% in 2024 but has fallen to 49% in the 2026 data. 

At the same time, the percentage of Americans who consider abortion to be morally wrong increased from 38% in 2022 to 41% today. 

It’s clear that Americans continue to wrestle with questions of morality when considering abortion and that they remain open to legal protections for preborn babies.

The Work Continues

Four years after Dobbs, one lesson is clear: overturning Roe did not end the pro-life movement’s work — it began a new chapter.

The future of the pro-life movement will be shaped in courtrooms, legislative chambers, town halls and ballot boxes. It will also be shaped by pregnancy resource centers, churches, families, and communities committed to building a culture of life one heart and one mind at a time.

New Poll Shows Nearly Two-Thirds of Americans Reject Unrestricted Abortion

Four years after Roe’s reversal, new Gallup polling suggests that one of the most common narratives being pushed in America may be wrong. 

While legacy media continues to focus on growing support for abortion, Gallup’s latest data demonstrates that two-thirds of Americans continue to reject unrestricted abortion and support some legal restrictions on abortion.

According to Gallup’s 2026 survey, 64% of Americans support legal restrictions on abortion, while only 33% support unrestricted abortion.

The 64% is broken down into three categories, including 15% who say abortion should be legal in most circumstances, 32% who believe it should be legal in only a few circumstances and 17% who think it should be illegal in all circumstances.

The march towards full acceptance of unrestricted abortion hasn’t materialized like abortion advocates hoped it would following the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022. 

What’s even more interesting: Support for the strongest pro-life position seems to be growing. The percentage of Americans who believe abortion should be illegal in all circumstances increased from 13% in 2025 to 17% in 2026.

Gallup’s latest polling also shows a more complex view of how Americans identify on the issue of abortion and the kind of policy they support. 

The 2026 survey shows that 53% of Americans identify as pro-choice, while 42% identify as pro-life. 

While that data might appear discouraging to the pro-life community, it is curious that even while 53% of Americans call themselves pro-choice, only 33% of respondents support unrestricted abortion. Meaning 20% of those who identified as pro-choice support restrictingabortion. 

Those numbers represent millions of Americans who consider themselves pro-choice but still think preborn children deserve at least some legal protections.

The data reveal that Americans who occupy the middle ground on abortion are largely politicalIndependents. Among Independents, 54% identify as pro-choice, yet only 49% say abortion is morally acceptable and just 32% believe it should be legal in all circumstances. 

This means many Independents who embrace the pro-choice label do not feel comfortable withunrestricted abortion. As the distinction moves from identity to morality and public policy, abortion support declines. This suggests that many Independent voters hold nuanced views that aren’t fully aligned with the abortion lobby’s push for unrestricted abortion.

Among Independents, 38% identify as pro-life, 40% find abortion to be morally wrong and 63% support either legal restrictions on abortion or making abortion illegal altogether (46% support some restrictions and 17% support making abortion illegal). 

Interestingly, these views closely mirror those of Americans overall. 

The findings suggest that many Independents who embrace the pro-choice label still support meaningful legal protections for preborn human life. 

For some time, Americans have been told that support for abortion is steadily increasing and that legal protections for preborn children are no longer favored by a majority of the public.

Gallup’s latest data tells a different story.

Public opinion remains unsettled, and Americans’ hearts and minds remain open to policies that recognize the humanity and dignity of preborn babies. While many Americans continue to identify as pro-choice, nearly two-thirds support at least some legal restrictions on abortion and reject unrestricted abortion.

For the pro-life movement, this data is a reminder that the debate is far from settled. The work of persuading our fellow Americans on the life issue and building a culture that protects every human life remains as important as ever.

14 AGs Press EPA on Abortion Pill Water Contamination

Earlier this month, a coalition of 14 attorneys general wrote a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asking it to add the abortion pill, mifepristone and its generics, to a list of water contaminants that need further investigation of potential harmful health effects on pregnant women. 

For many pro-life Americans, the request raises an obvious question: Why hasn’t this been studied before?

Mifepristone is the first medication in a two-drug regimen used to induce a chemical abortion. It works by blocking progesterone, the hormone needed for a baby to grow in the womb. Without progesterone, the baby starves to death. The second medication, misoprostol, causes the uterus to expel the dead baby.

Guttmacher Institute reports that chemical abortions account for 63% of abortions in the United States each year. At the same time, abortion pills are increasingly prescribed through telehealth visits and delivered by mail, resulting in more women self-managing abortions at home and flushing chemically tainted medical waste and human fetal tissue into America’s waterways. 

The attorneys general contend that the increase in abortion pill use and at-home chemical abortions raises important questions under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

In their letter, they argue that “conventional wastewater treatment is not designed to remove” abortion-drug contaminants from the water supply. They maintain that this creates a potentially serious public health concern because regulators do not know the extent to which abortion-drug residues may be present in drinking water or what effects long-term exposure could have on women and developing children.

The attorneys general further contend that “if mifepristone reaches sufficient concentration, pregnant women who unintentionally ingest the drug through the public water supply could be at greater risk of health complications.”

To address those concerns they are asking the EPA to add mifepristone and its generic equivalents to the agency’s Contaminant Candidate List, a screening tool used to identify substances that may warrant additional study and monitoring.

Placement on the list would not mean the EPA has determined the drug poses a risk to public health. Rather, it would signal that the agency believes the substance merits further investigation to determine whether regulation or additional monitoring is appropriate.

According to the attorneys general, further study is needed to better understand any unintended effects these drugs may have on public health, including potential impacts on fertility and reproductive development.

The EPA routinely evaluates chemicals and pharmaceutical compounds that find their way into the nation’s waterways. The attorneys general argue that mifepristone deserves similar scrutiny.

Supporters of the request contend that the rapid growth of at-home chemical abortions raises legitimate questions about whether abortion drugs and their metabolites are entering water systems in meaningful quantities and, if so, what effects they may have on human health and the environment.

Critics counter that there is currently no evidence showing mifepristone in drinking water poses a public health threat. They’re wrong.

Supporters also respond that any absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of no problem. If mifepristone has not been routinely monitored as a drinking water contaminant, regulators would have limited data about its existence in water supplies or any potential long-term effects. That uncertainty, they argue, is precisely why further study is warranted.

The letter was authored by Missouri Attorney General (AG) Catherine Hanaway and is joined by: Alabama AG Steve Marshall, Alaska AG Cori Mills, Arkansas AG Tim Griffin, Florida AG James Uthmeier, Idaho AG Raul Labrador, Indiana AG Todd Rokita, Kansas AG Kris Kobach, Kentucky AG Russell Coleman, Louisiana AG Liz Murrill, Nebraska AG Mike Hilgers, Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond, South Carolina AG Alan Wilson and Texas AG Ken Paxton.

The campaign is led by Students for Life Action. 

Americans deserve to understand the full consequences of drugs designed to end human life. Asking questions, gathering facts and following the evidence wherever it leads should be an effort embraced by all people of goodwill.

Moral Acceptance of Abortion Falls 5 Points

A new Gallup survey shows that the moral acceptance of abortion has dropped five points since 2024. The new data is encouraging because it suggests the trend towards moral acceptance of abortion following Roe’s reversal is finally waning.

Since 2001, Gallup has conducted an annual poll, Values and Beliefs. The poll addressed a variety of issues, including abortion, gender, homosexuality, doctor-assisted suicide, pornography, divorce, gambling, polygamy, affairs, cloning and animal testing to name a few.

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision, Gallup recorded high levels of support for abortion and an increase in acceptance of abortion as a moral choice. In 2024, 54% of Americans said abortion was “morally acceptable” — the highest level of moral acceptance Gallup has ever polled on this question.

But this new survey data suggests that the trend may be changing.

According to Gallup’s latest survey, conducted in May of this year, only 49% of Americans say abortion is morally acceptable — that’s a five-point decline from just two years ago. 

At the same time, the percentage of respondents who believe abortion is morally wrong increased from 37% to 41%.

Public opinions on moral questions often change very slowly and over time, so a five-point decline in just two years is noteworthy and should be an encouragement to the pro-life community and their efforts to win over hearts and minds on the issue of abortion.

The abortion numbers were not the only surprise in Gallup’s survey.

Interestingly, the survey also showed a decline in moral acceptability for having children outside of marriage (decline of nine percentage points), birth control (decline of seven percentage points), gambling (decline of six percentage points) and cloning animals (decline of 10 percentage points).

All this data is a momentary snapshot, but taken together and assessed over a longer period of time, it might suggest something bigger is happening here. While it’s true that American attitudes have been moving towards greater moral permissiveness, the Gallup findings don’t support the narrative that Americans are embracing an ever-expanding list of morally acceptable behaviors.

The survey doesn’t tell us why attitudes towards a specific issue area have changed, but it is a reminder that public opinion is not fixed. Cultural change is possible, and the pro-life movement can advance its cause even further as long as it doesn’t lose heart. 

Only time will tell whether this year’s decline in abortion acceptance is temporary or the beginning of a long-term trend, but for the first time in several years, the trajectory appears to be moving in a pro-life direction, and that is certainly worth celebrating.

FDA Launches Study on Safety of Abortion Pill

At long last, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced plans to study the safety of the drug mifepristone, better known as the “abortion pill.”

The decision comes years after President Joe Biden and his administration authorized the drug to be distributed via telehealth appointments and through the mail. Previously, any woman who sought the prescription pharmaceutical was required to see a doctor in-person.

Advocates for the abortion pill are quick to downplay some of the serious side effects of the drug.

Some of those include hemorrhage, severe infection (sepsis), and undetected ectopic pregnancy, which is a life-threatening pregnancy outside the uterus. Common side effects include heavy bleeding and blood clots, cramping, nausea, fever and dizziness.

Those advocating for easy distribution of the abortion drug point to years of data purporting to prove its “safety and effectiveness.” Tragically, they ignore the danger of what can happen when unsuspecting women recklessly and cavalierly pop pills that are designed to kill the life of preborn children.

Calling any drug whose consumption will lead to the death of a preborn baby as “safe” is delusional, but also dangerous for the mother. When you consider that for more than two decades the drug was always dispensed in-person, it’s logical that the medical oversight that process included likely minimized any spike in side effects escalating into the death of the woman taking the pill. 

Yet, in their effort to normalize and expand access to abortion, Planned Parenthood dismisses concerns raised by pro-life advocates regarding the unmonitored distribution of the drug.” Planned Parenthood’s Alexis McGill, the leading abortion organization’s CEO, called the FDA’s wise review “a politically motivated farce.”

The idiom, “The pot calling the kettle black,” immediately comes to mind.

Planned Parenthood and McGill’s manic obsession with abortion is so acute that they’re willing to politicize the safety of women in order to keep the killer drugs flowing through the mail on demand.

“We already know chemical abortions kill babies and endanger women,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), chairman of the Senate’s health committee. “The Trump administration needs to stop dragging their feet and immediately reinstate the in-person requirement.”

It’s been reported that former FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, who was fired last month, supported the idea of a review, but was awaiting new technology to make it happen. The study will involve pouring over medical records of women who have taken the drug and then evaluating health concerns and outcomes. 

According to Thursday’s Wall Street Journal, the new study has the support of the White House.

The pro-life friendly state of Louisiana is challenging the current Biden-era rules that allow mifepristone to be distributed via telemedicine, mail and pharmacies. They’re rightly arguing that current regulations undermine and outright violate their state’s ban on abortion.

Earlier this spring, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Louisiana’s claim, but the Supreme Court stayed the ruling, which allowed the reckless distribution of the abortion pill to continue. The case remains under review in the Fifth Circuit and could eventually make its way back to the High Court.

The current FDA review could take up to six months, though initial findings could be issued this summer.

Please join us in praying for a thorough, honest, and critical review of the dangers of the drug and that officials will acknowledge and address the myriad of dangers associated with this deadly drug.