Pro-life advocates from across the nation gathered for this year’s March for Life in January, laser-focused on the next mission.
“As you’re out there talking to activists, they are excited, but they also have a laundry list of things that are still not done to check off,” said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America.
That list includes ending abortion at the state level and cutting off access to drugs that are used to end pregnancies through abortion.
Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, 12 states have moved to provide constitutional protections for abortion. The result: more than one million abortions were performed in a single year, from July 2023 to June 2024, a number higher than in the years before the landmark decision.
Researchers point to several factors driving the increase, including patients’ ability to travel across state lines, so-called “shield laws” that allow abortions in states where the procedure is banned, and a rise in chemical abortions.
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“There are no guardrails on the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol. Women are ordering them online — sometimes it’s coercive men. There’s no verification of who is getting them,” said Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OBGYN with the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute.
Skop told CBN News it is difficult to track the true number of chemical abortions, noting that some pills are coming from overseas.
“They’re being delivered in the mail, often to pro-life states like Texas. No testing beforehand. No doctor to walk with the woman through the abortion,” Skop said.
She and others are calling for more action from the Trump administration.
In January, a group of GOP lawmakers urged the White House to reverse Biden-era FDA regulations that allow abortion pills to be prescribed via telehealth.
“You can’t say it’s a state issue and sit on the sidelines while the federal government, through an agency, is sending the pill that undercuts everything people at the state level have worked for,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
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