WASHINGTON—Three years after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, authorities have not determined who leaked the draft opinion.
The failure to track down the Supreme Court leaker has baffled the public and angered many on the Right, who consider the leak a politically-motivated attempt to stop the Court from overturning Roe. The Court conducted an investigation into the leak, but said in January 2023 that they could not identify the leaker — and <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/Dobbs_Public_Report_January_19_2023.pdf">possibly never will</a>.
&#8220;In time, continued investigation and analysis may produce additional leads that could identify the source of the disclosure,&#8221; the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2023 statement said. &#8220;Whether or not any individual is ever identified as the source of the disclosure, the Court should take action to create and implement better policies to govern the handling of Court-sensitive information and determine the best IT systems for security and collaboration.&#8221;
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino revealed in May that the FBI is giving increased scrutiny to the &#8220;leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case,&#8221; among a few other high-profile cases that have not been properly investigated.
&#8220;I receive requested briefings on these cases weekly and we are making progress,&#8221; Bongino <a href="https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1926961051129508247">said in late May</a>. &#8220;If you have any investigative tips on these matters that may assist us then please contact the FBI.&#8221;
The leak of the draft opinion prompted protests outside the Maryland and Virginia homes of the conservative Supreme Court justices — illegal protests in violation of 18 USC 1507, which prohibits picketing or parading near the home of a judge &#8220;with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice.&#8221;
In addition to the protests, the Dobbs leak prompted attacks on pregnancy centers and churches all across the United States. According to CatholicVote trackers, at least <a href="https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/">96 pregnancy centers</a> and <a href="https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/">343 churches have been attacked</a>, vandalized, firebombed, or otherwise terrorized since the leak.
In many cases, vandals spray-painted the messages “if abortions aren’t safe then you aren’t either” and autographed the destruction, “Jane’s Revenge,&#8221; a reference to &#8220;Jane Roe,&#8221; the pseudonymous plaintiff in the landmark abortion case.
Radical leftist groups published Supreme Court justices’ addresses online and urged protestors to make the justices uncomfortable in efforts to save Roe. Justice Samuel Alito <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/10/25/justice-alito-roe-leak-made-us-targets-assassination/">has said that the leak</a> made the justices &#8220;targets for assassination.&#8221;
Though both Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) and then-Maryland Governor Larry Hogan (R) begged the Justice Department to enforce that law as far-Left activists continued their protesting, President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department did not respond to these requests until June 8, 2022, the very same day that authorities arrested Nicholas Roske and charged him with attempting to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
<div id="attachment_938781" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-years-later-we-still-dont-know-who-leaked-the-supreme-courts-dobbs-decision/abortion-rights-activists-protest-outside-justices-houses-2" rel="attachment wp-att-938781"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-938781" class="wp-image-938781 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1241188191.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Protesters march past Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s home on June 8, 2022, in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (Photo by Nathan Howard/Getty Images)</div>
“We thought there would be more urgency,” Michael Ricci, who served as Hogan’s spokesman, <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/01/25/hogans-office-surprised-disappointed-by-lack-of-doj-urgency-in-protecting-justices/">told The Daily Signal in January 2023</a>. “In this climate, there are any number of threats, both specific and vague, against public officials. And we thought there would be more urgency about protecting the perimeter of the justices’ homes, and by extension, their neighborhoods.”
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Far left protestors with @OurRightsDC march by Justice Kavanaugh’s home in the rain. Police stand guard. <a href="https://t.co/4lHnEOvpsK">pic.twitter.com/4lHnEOvpsK</a>
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Authorities <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/police-arrest-armed-man-near-brett-kavanaughs-home-who-allegedly-wanted-to-kill-the-justice-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> 26-year-old Nicholas Roske in 2022 in Kavanaugh’s Maryland neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools, after he called the police on himself. <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25476861-roskemts2010325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Court filings show</a> that Roske described himself as “actively suicidal” and said he wanted to “do something positive before I die” by taking out Kavanaugh before the justice could vote to overturn Roe.
He found Kavanaugh’s neighborhood online, according to court documents, after he saw an article with a “picture of the family’s house,” including the house number.
“I was thinking about — I was thinking about killing Brett Kavanaugh and then killing myself,” he said to the <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25476860-roskesuppmts010325/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officers who arrived</a> on the scene, according to January court filings. “And then I texted my sister that I loved her. And then she called me and she told me not to do it. And then I called 9-1-1-.”
“I saw the news and it was upsetting, and I was already suicidal,” he told detectives later, as he described how he tracked down Kavanaugh’s home and planned the assassination. “And I don’t know. It was something to — it was like a project I guess…”
<div id="attachment_938785" style="width: 874px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/three-years-later-we-still-dont-know-who-leaked-the-supreme-courts-dobbs-decision/abortion-rights-activists-protest-outside-justices-homes" rel="attachment wp-att-938785"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-938785" class="wp-image-938785 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-864x576.jpg" alt="" width="864" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-864x576.jpg 864w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-300x200.jpg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921-768x512.jpg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/GettyImages-1405921921.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 864px) 100vw, 864px" /></a>Law enforcement officers stand guard as abortion rights activists with Our Rights DC march in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh&#8217;s house on June 29, 2022, in Chevy Chase, Maryland. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)</div>
“When I saw the leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to — I don’t know,” he shared. “I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him.”
Roske allegedly flew from California to Dulles International Airport after he found Kavanaugh’s home using media photographs of protests outside the justice’s home, protests which began after POLITICO’s May 2022 publication of a leaked draft Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe.
POLITICO itself acknowledged that its publication of the unprecedented leak would stir up controversy. They were <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/08/politico-finalist-draft-opinion-overturning-abortion-rights-00095845">named as a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize</a> for the story, though the story <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/05/politico-pulitzer-prize">did not win the prize</a>.
&#8220;No draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending,&#8221; <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">wrote journalists Josh Gerstein and </a><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">Alexander Ward</a>. &#8220;The unprecedented revelation is bound to intensify the debate over what was already the most controversial case on the docket this term.&#8221;

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Three Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Who Leaked The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision

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&#8220;It looks like a baby. It was on the ground moving.&#8221;
That is what an 18-year-old girl told a pregnancy center employee after taking an abortion pill she ordered online from overseas.
It is just one of the shocking incidents workers in PreBorn&#8217;s pro-life pregnancy center network have experienced as they scramble to help desperate women who show up seeking help after taking the abortion pill.
PreBorn founder Dan Steiner spoke to The Daily Wire about his group&#8217;s harrowing work. He said women often show up at his clinics &#8220;severely traumatized&#8221; after days of severe bleeding.
&#8220;I&#8217;m talking about their mattress being soaked with blood, and that&#8217;s very dangerous,&#8221; Steiner said. &#8220;That trauma is bringing them into our clinics, and it&#8217;s twofold. One is the bleeding, but even more traumatic is that they are delivering the baby on the floor, in their bathroom toilet.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re bringing this into our clinics, like wrapped in washcloths, you know, these little babies,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s traumatizing our clinic workers as well.&#8221;
Sometimes, the pregnancy center has an arrangement with a local cemetery to dispose of babies&#8217; bodies in a dignified way. But &#8220;that&#8217;s not the case with a lot of our clinics,&#8221; Steiner said.
Afterward, he noted, women &#8220;have to go back to the scene of the crime, their own bathroom, every day for the rest of their lives.&#8221;
&#8220;This is just a nightmare on steroids,&#8221; Steiner said. &#8220;It definitely kills their baby, but it also kills their hearts.&#8221;
On top of this, women often end up with severe complications after taking mifepristone, the popular abortion drug.
The two-pill chemical abortion regimen — mifepristone, usually followed by misoprostol — aims to end the life of the unborn baby and expel it from the woman’s uterus. However, the drugs sometimes fail to expel all the fetal tissue, which can cause life-threatening complications.
A study released last month shows the abortion pill is many times more dangerous than the FDA claims.
More than one in 10 women suffer “serious adverse events” after taking mifepristone, which can include hemorrhaging, needing a blood transfusion, an emergency room visit, and even deadly conditions like sepsis, insurance claim data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/abortion-pill-22-times-more-dangerous-than-fda-claimed-new-study-says?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=11&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Abortion+Pill+22+Times+More+Dangerous+Than+FDA+Claimed%2C+New+Study+Says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a>.
This is about 22 times higher than what the FDA put on its label for the brand Mifeprex in 2023. The FDA <a href="https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2023/020687Orig1s025Lbl.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cited</a> clinical studies saying less than 0.5% of women suffered “serious adverse reactions” to mifepristone.
The pill also has a high failure rate. More than one in 20 women need a second abortion after mifepristone fails, the insurance data <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/more-than-1-in-20-women-need-second-abortion-attempt-after-abortion-pill-fails?author=Mairead+Elordi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=3&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=More+Than+1+in+20+Women+Need+Second+Abortion+Attempt+After+Abortion+Pill+Fails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
According to Steiner, the typical woman who comes to PreBorn for help is between 19 and 24, has multiple sexual partners, and likely does not know how far along she is in her pregnancy. That makes taking the abortion pill more dangerous, since it is only designed to be effective in early pregnancy.
Many women also change their minds after taking mifepristone, and frantically search online for how to reverse the drug&#8217;s effects and save their pregnancy.
Heartbeat International is a pro-life organization that reaches those women through its Abortion Pill Rescue Network, which has helped more than 6,000 women reverse their abortions with progesterone.
Jor-El Godsey, president of Heartbeat International, said that for most of the women who reach out to them, the experience of abortion was &#8220;not as promised.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s not &#8216;just a pill&#8217; and it&#8217;s not &#8216;safer than Tylenol,'&#8221; he told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Once they begin to have significant symptoms, they sometimes call with deep regret and we must get them to care immediately.
Godsey recalled one mother, Sara, who took the abortion pill for her fourth baby because her boyfriend threatened to leave her if she did not.
&#8220;She realized her mistake and said it felt like a darkness had come over her,&#8221; Godsey said.
In desperation, the woman called the Abortion Pill Rescue Network&#8217;s hotline, and the nurse who answered connected her with a clinic that gave her progesterone.
The boyfriend kept his promise and left Sara and the children. But the baby, Isaiah, is now six, in kindergarten, plays soccer, and has a large extended family who &#8220;adore him,&#8221; Godsey said.
But not every story has a happy ending.
One woman took the abortion pill while carrying twins and delivered a &#8220;perfectly formed, deceased, tiny baby boy,&#8221; Godsey said. She called the Abortion Pill Rescue Network to stop the abortion and save her second baby, but it was too late — she quickly delivered a second deceased baby.
&#8220;That evening alone in her backyard she buried her tiny babies,&#8221; Godsey said. &#8220;I often think of her when I hear the lie that abortion empowers women. Instead, it often brings them to their lowest point.&#8221;
Medication abortions are far more common than surgical abortions. Medication abortions made up 63% of all abortions in 2023, up from 31% in 2014, <a href="https://www.guttmacher.org/2024/03/medication-abortion-accounted-63-all-us-abortions-2023-increase-53-2020" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute.
The abortion pill is likely the main factor driving up the country’s total number of abortions in recent years, even in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Abortion advocates have argued that the abortion pill should be more available to order online now that some Republican-led states ban abortion.
A few months before Roe was overturned, the FDA scrapped the requirement that women must obtain abortion pills in-person from a health provider, allowing them to obtain them online through the mail.
Steiner said the FDA engaged in &#8220;ideological, intentional ignorance&#8221; on the dangers of mifepristone.
&#8220;They&#8217;ve known it all along. They would have to know it all along,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it was Xanax and women were hospitalized because of taking Xanax, pull it!&#8221;
Steiner said that short of pulling mifepristone from the market, he would like to see it slapped with a black box warning, the FDA&#8217;s most serious warning. He would also like to see the Trump administration enforce the Comstock Act, an 1873 law that criminalized mailing abortion material.
Mifepristone was approved by the FDA in 2000.
Godsey slammed the FDA as well, saying the agency has relied on &#8220;highly controlled clinical trials performed by the abortion industry.&#8221;
&#8220;No one even knows how many abortions are happening or how many women are being harmed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t healthcare, and women deserve better.&#8221;

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When The Abortion Pill Goes Wrong, These Pro-Life Groups Pick Up The Pieces

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The leak of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision, and the historic ruling that followed, weren’t just legal landmarks — they were cultural earthquakes.
For millions of Americans, those days are seared into memory, standing alongside the moon landing or the collapse of the Berlin Wall. But Dobbs wasn’t the end of the fight for life — it was the beginning.
For the first time in half a century, Americans could protect the lives of babies in the womb through their state and federal representatives. Red states were ready to run with the ball. Several had trigger laws — laws designed to take effect to protect babies at conception the moment Roe fell — that went into effect when the decision came down. Others, like South Carolina and Florida, moved quickly to pass legislation safeguarding life.
Those bold moves were met with electoral reward: Gov. Ron DeSantis won re-election in a Florida <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ron_DeSantis" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landslide</a>, as did Governors<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Kim_Reynolds" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Kim Reynolds</a>,<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_gubernatorial_and_lieutenant_gubernatorial_election,_2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Mike DeWine</a>, and<a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Georgia_gubernatorial_election,_2022" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Brian Kemp</a> in Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia, respectively. We very quickly reached the point where half of the states had <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/lifesavinglaws" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pro-life laws</a>.
Now, the pro-life movement has turned to its next major historic battle: defunding Planned Parenthood and dismantling the forced taxpayer funding of the abortion-industrial complex.
For decades, taxpayers have been forced to fund abortion businesses, with the lion’s share of funding coming from Medicaid. With Planned Parenthood responsible for more than <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/fact-sheet-planned-parenthoods-2022-23-annual-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">400,000</a> abortions annually, Americans have been forced to subsidize the leading cause of death for far too long.
But there’s a plan to end this. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which recently passed the House of Representatives, pulls the plug on Medicaid funding for abortion businesses.
It could have a seismic impact.
After President Donald Trump froze<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/#:~:text=Planned%20Parenthood%20Health%20Systems%2C%20Inc,halted%20by%20the%20Trump%20administration." target="_blank" rel="noopener"> $27.5 million</a> in Title X dollars to Planned Parenthood, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/clinics-begin-closing-as-trump-admin-continues-freeze-on-family-planning-funds-00302504" target="_blank" rel="noopener">POLITICO</a> reported that several Planned Parenthood affiliates were closing or struggling to stay afloat.
<a href="https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/262849/planned-parenthood-shutters-only-facility-in-manhattan-after-decades-of-pro-life-prayers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manhattan’s</a> only Planned Parenthood closed. Four<a href="https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/03/planned-parenthood-shutting-down-4-michigan-clinics-after-trump-administration-cuts-funding/#:~:text=Planned%20Parenthood%20shutting%20down,said%20in%20a%20news%20release.%20%E2%80%9C" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Michigan</a> facilities are shutting down. Two<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/22/clinics-begin-closing-as-trump-admin-continues-freeze-on-family-planning-funds-00302504" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Utah</a> Planned Parenthoods closed at the end of last month. Four Planned Parenthood facilities in <a href="https://www.iowapublicradio.org/health/2025-05-24/planned-parenthood-to-close-four-clinics-in-iowa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Iowa</a> and four more in<a href="https://www.startribune.com/why-planned-parenthood-is-closing-four-minnesota-clinics-and-laying-off-staff/601362453" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Minnesota</a> are closing.
If that’s the impact of $27.5 million, we don’t have to guess what taking away <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/870/866408.pdf#page=12" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$529 million</a> in Medicaid funding annually will do. Planned Parenthood says this would mean<a href="https://x.com/KristanHawkins/status/1925627793745821741" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> 200</a> of their facilities would close.
With Republicans on Capitol Hill energized to stop the forced taxpayer funding of abortion businesses and around <a href="https://www.kofc.org/en/news-room/archive.html?section=polls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60%</a> of Americans against publicly funding abortion, Planned Parenthood is growing desperate. They took out a New York Times <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2025/05/21/planned-parenthood-celebrity-ad/83766968007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad</a>, which likely cost tens of thousands of dollars, that featured Harry Styles, Megan Thee Stallion, Doug Emhoff’s daughter, Jussie Smollett’s sister, and other celebrities calling for the forced taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood.
This is just one example of how Planned Parenthood funnels resources into political activism, money that could instead be used to improve basic health standards at their facilities.
Planned Parenthood’s spending priorities have horrific results: a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/planned-parenthood-clinics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stillbirth</a> after an IUD was placed when a woman was pregnant,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/us/planned-parenthood-clinics.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> biohazards</a> and raw sewage left to fester in a Nebraska facility for days, and botched <a href="https://flatwaterfreepress.org/dysfunction-turnover-at-omaha-planned-parenthood-clinic-further-limiting-abortion-access-in-nebraska/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">HIV and syphilis tests</a>, to name a few. Most tragically, an 18-year-old girl in Colorado <a href="https://sbaprolife.org/latest-news/young-woman-dies-after-late-term-abortion-at-planned-parenthood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">died</a> after a late-term abortion at a Planned Parenthood facility earlier this year.
Women on Medicaid will be much better served by community health centers, which already outnumber Planned Parenthood facilities <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/realchoices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">15:1</a>. These centers provide much more comprehensive and higher quality care than entities that exist to sell abortions.
We are optimistic this will be the year we defund Planned Parenthood — which would help pro-life Republican candidates win elections in 2026 and 2028. But Democrats, the legacy media, Hollywood, liberal universities, and other woke institutions are doing everything within their power to prevent the greatest human rights victory of our time.
Ballot measures have wiped away pro-life laws in Ohio, Arizona, and Missouri, where Republican leaders failed to fully engage in the battle. Activist courts have stopped states from protecting babies in the womb. Shield laws — designed to give blue state abortionists immunity when they ship abortion drugs into pro-life states — and similar workarounds from the Biden administration allow blue state abortionists to bypass pro-life laws, kill unborn children, and harm women across state lines by mailing abortion drugs.
All of this means that the total number of abortions performed in the United States has increased since the Dobbs decision. While there is no definitive way to calculate the total number of abortions performed each year, a new Charlotte Lozier Institute<a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/new-report-confirms-abortions-continue-to-rise-after-dobbs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> study</a> reveals a startling reality.
The study compiles existing data from pro-abortion entities like the Guttmacher Institute and #WeCount, and shows the total number of abortions is at least 1.1 million annually.
This is not the time to retreat. This is the time to go on offense. Human rights battles are never won overnight. Slavery wasn’t abolished in just a few years, nor was segregation.
The fall of Roe was the start of the most significant human rights movement of our time. Bringing this movement to a successful conclusion will take persistence, unity, and courage.
Now is the time for the pro-life movement to reignite, take the historic step of defunding Planned Parenthood, and to elect leaders who don’t flinch when the stakes are high. We stand on the shoulders of decades of sacrifice and prayer, and, by the grace of God, we believe this could be the year we take the next big step.
Because the fight for life isn’t over.
It’s just getting started.
Marjorie Dannenfelser is president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. She has been called “the woman who brought down Roe.”
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Three Years After Dobbs, The Pro-Life Movement Is Just Getting Started 

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On Monday, Dan Bongino, the Deputy Director of the FBI, announced that the agency would further its investigation into cocaine being found in the Biden White House and the leak of the draft of the Dobbs decision by the Supreme Court that overruled Roe v. Wade, and the <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/january-5-pipe-bomb-investigation-new-footage-of-suspect-placing-bomb-at-dnc/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pipe bombs</a> that were left near the DNC and RNC offices in Washington, D.C., in on January 2021.
On July 2, 2023, the Secret Service discovered powder cocaine in a vestibule cubby at the White House where visitors store mobile phones. President Biden and his family were at Camp David at the time. The Secret Service concluded its investigation ten days later.
“There was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area,” the FBI <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/photos-show-cocaine-found-inside-white-house-complex/story?id=104874539" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a> at the time. “Without physical evidence, the investigation will not be able to single out a person of interest from the hundreds of individuals who passed through the vestibule where the cocaine was discovered. At this time, the Secret Service&#8217;s investigation is closed due to a lack of physical evidence.”
In May 2022, someone leaked a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Supreme Court denounced the leak as “a grave assault on the judicial process.” Gail Curley, the court official assigned with investigating the incident, <a href="//29439C2B-4E2B-4FE5-8C88-C31A6D9B9364/v" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “If a Court employee disclosed the draft opinion, that person brazenly violated a system that was built fundamentally on trust with limited safeguards to regulate and constrain access to very sensitive information.”
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“Shortly after swearing in, the Director and I evaluated a number of cases of potential public corruption that, understandably, have garnered public interest,” Bongino wrote on X. “We made the decision to either re-open, or push additional resources and investigative attention, to these cases. These cases are the DC pipe bombing investigation, the cocaine discovery at the prior administration’s White House, and the leak of the Supreme Court Dobbs case.”
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People often say, “Never discuss politics in polite company.” But, considering today’s volatile climate, let’s break that rule.
As a Christian who’s been president and CEO of Care Net since 2012, I’ve seen the abortion debate shift dramatically — especially since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade. Many pro-lifers celebrated, thinking we’d won the war.
But did we declare victory too soon?
For decades, the pro-life goal was clear: overturn Roe through the courts. Every January, faithful pro-lifers marched in Washington, D.C., aiming for the right Supreme Court justices to rule in favor of life. Dobbs seemed like the victory we’d fought for — overruling Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, declaring abortion isn’t a “substantive right” rooted in our nation’s history.
But events since then demand we reflect and consider the serious limits of purely political solutions.
The Democratic Party’s position on abortion hasn’t budged since 2012: abortion on demand, anytime, for any reason. It’s their litmus test. Meanwhile, the Republican stance has shifted.
In 2012, with Mitt Romney as their standard-bearer, Republicans opposed all abortions except in cases of rape, incest, or the mother’s life — exceptions that would make 97 percent of abortions illegal. Today, President Donald Trump says abortion should be left to “the will of the people” at the state level. Other Republicans support six- or fifteen-week bans with exceptions, allowing nearly 98% of abortions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The 2024 Republican platform no longer affirms the unborn’s “fundamental right to life” or supports a Human Life Amendment, only opposing late-term abortions — less than 2% of cases.
Here’s the inconvenient truth: when you consider the abortion issue based on both parties’ platforms, both parties are essentially pro-choice now — one has no exceptions, the other has some.
The debate isn’t about bans anymore; it’s about abortion availability.
This shift undermines two core pro-life convictions: human life begins at conception and is worthy of protection, and a baby’s value isn’t determined by conception circumstances. A weeks-based approach — negotiating when it’s acceptable to end a life — compromises these convictions. This should be as non-negotiable as saying it’s wrong to kill an innocent outside the womb.
Pro-choice advocates don’t negotiate. Their conviction — bodily autonomy at all costs — supports abortion up to birth. That’s why they fought Mississippi’s fifteen-week ban in Dobbs, even though it seemed they would lose. But our weeks-based strategy fails morally and practically. Morally, it undermines the baby’s personhood. Practically, compromising on conviction doesn’t inspire others to adopt it. I can’t think of a successful movement — religious, political, or social — where this approach worked.
History shows that compromising on conviction rarely inspires change. Look at slavery. Abraham Lincoln called it “wrong, morally and politically” in 1859, yet his 1861 inaugural address avoided abolishing it, focusing on stopping its spread. He compromised.
Abolitionists like Frederick Douglass shared Lincoln’s conviction but refused to negotiate, linking their actions to ending slavery entirely. Douglass’s clarity pushed Lincoln. By 1865, Lincoln couldn’t imagine a union with slavery, seeing the Civil War as God-ordained “woe” for the offense of slavery.
We need that clarity today. A weeks-based framework doesn’t inspire courage in politicians or the culture. Without acting like Douglass, we won’t get a Lincoln. I’m grateful for pro-life Republicans working to support women at risk for abortion, and for Dobbs. But if the national policy tolerates most abortions, those efforts are muted. Indeed, abortions are up since Roe was overturned, more states have loosened their restrictions on abortion than not, and public opinion has shifted in a pro-choice direction.
Politicians face Pontius Pilate’s dilemma when faced with an innocent Jesus: “Should the shouts of a powerful and vocal crowd sway them to sacrifice the innocent?” The politics of abortion don’t change its morality. In 2012, Republicans had a measure of clarity — I hope they regain it, and Democrats find it, because vulnerable lives are at stake.
Culture shapes politics, and religion shapes culture. The 2023 Ohio ballot initiative, making abortion a constitutional right, passed with 57% support in a “pro-life” state. Exit polls showed Catholics and Protestants voted yes at rates mirroring the broader culture. Worse, 54% of women who have abortions profess to be Catholic or Protestant.
If you lose the pews, you lose at the polls.
Roland Warren is president and CEO of <a href="https://care-net.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Care Net</a> and the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Abortion-Must-Abundant-Life/dp/0997228539/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3GE1540HN1QI0&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.puTuVSrDnqiSL-sbmiDzx4VDsjs8IzGvmM7Mkl9eYtz0brcntZs1IqkZV1FRqnk-iIYazXoiCCXWOQiczInm11PwHrpxCuDiyaoQgJaTcK7JJGMCcfGgg-9__tSGOI__WeCVTB0WvHBmW_2ujDtZl2NqDgLfgWZix08DE1eaXEXdATvQAKHncx-DECpW_gYPu24FR7VRHCXSWeBi0pB3HgRuPUuboOcxRjtQMNJudkk.S9JjGheZ3vdBUxf6tNQG9-DWoSHJFrtISKjQg40kSm4&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=The+ALternative+to+Abortion&amp;qid=1747317907&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=the+alternative+to+abortion%2Cstripbooks%2C113&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Alternative to Abortion: Why We Must Be Pro-Abundant Life</a>.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Why Politics Alone Will Never Save the Pro-Life Movement

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When it overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, the Supreme Court eliminated the biggest legal obstacle to advancing the pro-life cause. But our fight has never been a fight against Roe v. Wade. It’s a fight for life – one that is only just beginning.
In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court said that regulating abortion belonged in the hands of the people and their elected representatives. Since then, nearly half the states have passed pro-life laws of different kinds – while others have doubled down on their pro-abortion policies.
Pro-abortion states and activists, however, are not content with legally protecting abortion where they live. They are now passing so-called abortion “shield” laws designed to undermine the ability of pro-life states to enforce their own laws.
Normally, states cooperate with each other when, for example, it comes to returning individuals to where they have committed crimes. This cooperation is required by the Constitution, and by multiple agreements that most states have signed.
Abortion shield laws break from that tradition, potentially causing irreparable damage to the interstate comity that has characterized the United States for so long.
But abortion shield laws also undermine traditional medical practice, which has long considered the location of medical care to be that of the patient, not the doctor.
In 2022, for example, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB), the board representing state medical and osteopathic boards, adopted a policy stating that the “practice of medicine occurs where the patient is located.” This is true, the FSMB said, even when a patient receives telemedicine: the state of care is the state in which the patient is located.
But states such as California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, Vermont, and Washington have passed laws reversing this principle so that the laws of an abortionist’s state apply.
This poses extreme risks, especially now that a majority of abortions are caused by drugs rather than surgery. It allows abortionists to mail abortion drugs into pro-life states while claiming that a completely different state’s laws apply – even though women receive, use, and (in case of complications) are treated for those drugs under the laws of their home state.
Abortion advocates know this is both nonsensical and dangerous.
The primary authors of this abortion shield strategy <a href="https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/02/Cohen-76-Stan.-L.-Rev.-317.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledge</a> that “[s]tandard telehealth practice considers medical care to have occurred where the patient is located.” They also concede that “there are important reasons for defining care as occurring where the patient is located,” and that “shifting the location of care is a significant departure from the standard of care, the provisions of state medical practice acts, and the guidance of professional organizations.”
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They even admit that “the state where the patient resides typically has the strongest interest” and best means of protecting the safety of the resident patient.
Yet while abortion activists know all of this, for them, nothing comes close to matching the importance of maximizing abortion in this country. Nothing, not even protecting women’s health, can compete with killing unborn children.
Thus, they turn a blind eye while doctors prescribe and provide abortion drugs to patients they will never see in person – and whom they will not treat in the case of resulting complications.
The pro-life cause requires not only passing laws that protect the unborn but also being able to enforce those laws. These abortion shield laws have the same objective as the Supreme Court did in Roe v. Wade: forcing abortion upon states that oppose it. The March for Life calls us to fight for life on these new fronts, meaning it’s not outdated – it’s more important than ever.
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Thomas Jipping is a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Abortion ‘Shield’ Laws: The Next Front In The Battle For Life

Abortion 'Shield' Laws: The Next Front In The Battle For Life

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State lawmakers, governors offices, and health departments must urgently address abortion misinformation, a leading pro-life group said in a memo to state officials first obtained by The Daily Wire.
The memo addresses an abundance of pro-abortion misinformation perpetuated since the overturn of Roe v. Wade, when the power to decide abortion laws was returned to the states. The main lie, pushed by Vice President Kamala Harris and top Democrats, is that if a pregnant woman is miscarrying her baby, abortion laws &#8220;tie doctors&#8217; hands from acting to save her life.&#8221;
Harris repeated this lie throughout the last election cycle, as did proponents of pro-abortion ballot amendments like Florida&#8217;s Amendment 4. Major media outlets like ProPublica published &#8220;tragic stories of deaths from abortion drugs and medical malpractice in an attempt to blame the loss of lives on pro-life laws in Georgia and Texas,&#8221; the memo stated.
&#8220;Pro-abortion groups have dishonestly publicized that pro-life laws protecting unborn children prevent pregnant women from receiving care in an emergency,&#8221; wrote Sue Liebel, state affairs director for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America. &#8220;Whether it’s a ballot measure fight, candidate race or legislative battle, this has been the abortion industry’s number one talking point which many in the Democratic Party have adopted.&#8221;
SBA Pro-Life America&#8217;s <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/pro-life-laws-protect-mom-and-baby-pregnant-womens-lives-are-protected-in-all-states/">research has found</a> that every state abortion law allows for women to receive emergency care and for doctors to &#8220;continue to rely on their reasonable medical judgment.&#8221;
And the organization is calling for state lawmakers to follow the example of several pro-life states: South Dakota recently adopted a <a href="https://doh.sd.gov/healthcare-professionals/medical-education-guidance/#:~:text=House%20Bill%201224,or%20health%2Dthreatening%20medical%20conditions.">Med Ed law that directly educates</a> medical professionals through training materials from the state&#8217;s Department of Health, with input from the state&#8217;s attorney general, medical professionals, and legal experts.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/states-must-urgently-educate-public-on-abortion-laws-to-combat-misinformation-memo/screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5-04-02-pm" rel="attachment wp-att-834371"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone wp-image-834371 size-large" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM-486x576.png" alt="" width="486" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM-486x576.png 486w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM-253x300.png 253w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/11/Screenshot-2024-11-25-at-5.04.02%E2%80%AFPM.png 690w" sizes="(max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px" /></a>
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In Florida, the Agency for Health Care Administration released guidance after the state&#8217;s heartbeat law went into effect, <a href="https://ahca.myflorida.com/content/download/25110/file/9-19-24-Notice-to-Providers.pdf">emphasizing that doctors still had the ability to treat pregnant women</a> facing medical emergencies. The agency also sent letters to every doctor in the state, launched a website, and more.
In Nebraska, the memo emphasized, the state health department <a href="https://dhhs.ne.gov/han%20Documents/ADVISORY10282024.pdf">issued a health alert to clarify it&#8217;s 12 week protections for the unborn</a> when pro-abortion groups ran ads confusing the public about when pregnant women could receive care.
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And in Texas, the state medical board <a href="https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/texas-medical-board-to-discuss-exceptions-to-states-abortion-ban/">adopted rules to protect women</a> under the state&#8217;s life at conception law, SBA Pro-Life America emphasized, noting that Texas&#8217;s new rule highlighted the importance of doctors relying on their reasonable medical judgment and noting that the law &#8220;allows for intervention when a serious situation is foreseeable.&#8221;
&#8220;We urge state leaders to act in 2025 to initiate Med Ed solutions to protect the pregnant women of their state,&#8221; the memo stated. &#8220;We hope these efforts will gain bipartisan support as they did in South Dakota and in Arizona, where a Democrat attorney general made clear that women can continue to receive care under their 15-week law. Protecting pregnant women should not be a contentious issue. Republican or Democrat, pro-life or pro-choice – we should all agree that putting women in danger for political purposes is wrong and should be put to an end.&#8221;

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States Must Urgently Educate Public On Abortion Laws To Combat Misinformation: MEMO

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Many in our nation see the topic of life only as a cause that divides. Each year at the National March for Life in Washington, D.C., our humble voices and peaceful presence serve as a reminder of the beauty and dignity of every human life, and as an invitation to all Americans to recognize this truth and to serve the most vulnerable.
Now, more than ever, we must come together to witness to the inherent dignity of life.
In the two years since the Dobbs decision, the pro-life community has faced many challenges. We have battled relentless and radical pro-abortion proposals at both the state and federal level. Pro-abortion politicians have been using their power to discredit the life-saving work of pregnancy resource centers at a time when these charitable organizations have been suffering widespread threats, physical violence, and vandalism. Moreover, deadly misinformation campaigns surrounding state-level pro-life protections are scaring doctors and women away from addressing pregnancy-related medical emergencies even though <a href="https://lozierinstitute.org/pro-life-laws-protect-mom-and-baby-pregnant-womens-lives-are-protected-in-all-states/#_ftnref1">none of these laws</a> prohibit life-saving care.
Extreme abortion measures that would enshrine a dangerous &#8220;right to abortion&#8221; into several state constitutions will be on the ballot this November. In Massachusetts, Attorney General Andrea Campbell has initiated a national “working group” of state AGs to target the work of pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) and Governor Maura Healy launched a million-dollar<a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/healey-driscoll-administration-launches-first-in-the-nation-public-education-campaign-on-the-dangers-of-anti-abortion-centers" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> taxpayer-funded</a> smear campaign aimed at discrediting and destroying them.
Attacks like these harm vulnerable pregnant women who most need the <a href="https://pregnancycarealliance.com/resources/2023-impact-report/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resources and support</a> that PRCs provide. The result is that PRCs are forced to divert attention and resources from serving women in need, toward defending themselves against political and physical attacks – all because they offer alternatives to abortion. 
Pro-abortion misinformation campaigns promoting the Democrats’ vision of abortion without limits have tragically contributed to the preventable deaths of Georgia mothers Amber Thurman and Candi Miller. Pro-abortion activists, who for two years have been spreading the false narrative that state-level pro-life protections prevent doctors from treating mothers with serious pregnancy complications, are rightly described as “<a href="https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/propublicas-misleading-abortion-ban-stories-are-part-of-the-problem/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">part of the problem</a>.” Those who fearmonger about pro-life protections would serve women far better if they admitted that complications from the unsupervised provision of abortion drugs caused the complications leading to Amber’s and Candi’s heartbreaking and untimely deaths.
Some pro-life Americans may feel overwhelmed or discouraged by these and many other challenges we face right now as a community. But while the landscape in which we work towards making abortion unthinkable will always have its ups and downs, the value and inherent dignity of vulnerable women and children never changes. Likewise, our resolve to protect and provide for them must never waver.
That is why for the 52nd National March for Life we chose a theme that reminds pro-life Americans of our roots &#8211; the reasons why we march by the thousands each year in the freezing cold, snow, and rain. We hope that reflecting on this year’s theme: “Every Life: Why We March” will be a source of the renewed energy and focus so needed for this moment. 
We march, not for ourselves, but rather for the pregnant women across the country who are in need of love and support. We march for the innocent unborn children who deserve a chance to live, to have a future, if only they are given the chance. We march also for our neighbors, co-workers, and elected officials who do not yet see the truth: that all human life is intrinsically valuable and worthy of protection.
For the past 52 years and again this year, pro-life Americans will unite from across all generations and all walks of life, with unique backgrounds and stories, to be a peaceful presence and joyful witness to this truth – and to march in love and protection of every human life.
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Jeanne Mancini is president of March for Life.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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The Biden campaign released an ad last week that personally attacks Supreme Court justices for being beholden to former President Donald Trump.
The <a href="https://youtu.be/_G3ua5TCHnA?si=1k6AHoU4GhR_IKdw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ad takes</a> particular aim at the Supreme Court&#8217;s landmark <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruling</a> earlier this month that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for acts that were within his constitutional powers as president.
&#8220;Nearly 250 years ago, America was founded in defiance of a king under the belief that no one is above the law, not even the president — until now,&#8221; the Biden ad&#8217;s narrator says.
The spot refers to the high court as the &#8220;Trump Supreme Court&#8221; and implies that the justices ignored the law and ruled as Trump wanted them to.
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&#8220;The same Trump Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade ruled that the president can ignore the law even to commit a crime because Donald Trump asked them to,&#8221; the ad&#8217;s narrator says. &#8220;He&#8217;s already led an insurrection and threatened to be a dictator on day one. Donald Trump can never hold this office again.&#8221;
President Joe Biden, 81, has frequently attacked the Supreme Court with its 6-3 conservative majority, especially as the campaign season has heated up.
&#8220;I dissent,&#8221; Biden <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-make-remarks-monday-evening-immunity-ruling-by-supreme-court-2024-07-01/">said</a> Monday evening in response, referring to the court&#8217;s decision on presidential immunity.
Biden has also been particularly focused on the Supreme Court&#8217;s 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, claiming the Dobbs decision overturned a constitutional right for the first time in the history of the court.
Biden&#8217;s attacks on the court are unprecedented, experts say.
Legal scholar Jonathan Turley <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-scotus-critiques-considered-unprecedented-experts-say-contrasting-clintons-2000-deference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> the idea that Biden is &#8220;really the symbol of constitutional fealty is really alarming.&#8221;
Attorney Mark Paoletta, a personal friend of Justice Clarence Thomas who played a significant role in his confirmation, called the attacks on the court &#8220;dangerous.&#8221;
&#8220;Obama criticized a single case in his State of the Union, which is bad enough, but Biden does a nationwide primetime address to trash the court on immunity… though he did not have the courage or perhaps the mental acuity to take any questions,&#8221; Paoletta <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/bidens-scotus-critiques-considered-unprecedented-experts-say-contrasting-clintons-2000-deference" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
In 2010, then-President Barack Obama lashed out at the court&#8217;s decision in the Citizens United case, which allowed corporations and other groups to spend independently on political campaigns.
The court &#8220;reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections,&#8221; Obama said during his State of the Union speech that year.
Republicans at the time criticized Obama&#8217;s willingness to attack the court.

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On Monday, the country marks two years since the Supreme Court overturned half a century of legalized abortion nationwide, a tumultuous two years that has held both wins and losses for the pro-life movement.
Since the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decision</a> reversed Roe vs. Wade in June 2022, a total of 24 states have passed bans on abortion at 15 weeks or earlier. The Dobbs case dealt with a 2018 Mississippi law banning most abortions after 15 weeks.
Bans or restrictions on abortion are currently <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/us/abortion-laws-roe-v-wade.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in effect</a> in 21 states, namely Texas, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona.
In the other three states that passed abortion bans, Iowa, Wyoming, and Montana, the laws are blocked in court for now.
Already, state abortion bans have resulted in tens of thousands more babies being born per year, a source of great joy for pro-life Americans across the country.
About 32,000 more babies were born per year due to state abortion bans enacted since Roe was overturned, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/state-abortion-bans-result-in-32000-more-babies-born-a-year-research-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to a November analysis by the Institute of Labor Economics. Births have <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/22/upshot/abortion-births-bans-states.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> in every state that has an abortion ban, the analysis found.
“Since the Dobbs decision, we have gained major ground in the fight for life,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/women-rule/2024/06/21/two-years-later-the-demise-of-roe-00164396" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
However, Dannenfelser warns allies not to take the high court&#8217;s decision for granted.
“This could be the last Dobbs anniversary we celebrate if we don’t win this election. If Joe Biden and the Democrats win, they will nuke the filibuster and pass the [Women&#8217;s Health Protection Act] to ban states from having laws protecting unborn children and mandate all-trimester abortion all across the country,” she said.
Attorney Erin Hawley, who served as co-counsel with Mississippi on the Dobbs case, believes that legally, Dobbs &#8220;one hundred percent&#8221; has more staying power than Roe did. Hawley is senior counsel at Alliance Defending Freedom and the wife of Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO).
&#8220;Roe from the get-go was just an act of judicial activism,&#8221; Hawley told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Even prominent liberal pro-abortion scholars long criticized the decision for having no constitutional basis at all.&#8221;
&#8220;In contrast, I think Dobbs gets the constitutional analysis exactly correct,&#8221; she said. &#8220;What Dobbs says is that the Constitution nowhere protects the right to abortion, and so that means the states and the people have the ability to protect life.&#8221;
Thanks to Dobbs, she said, many state abortion laws now &#8220;just need to be rational&#8221; rather than meet the &#8220;undue burden&#8221; standard.
&#8220;The undue burden test really hamstrung states. Again, you cannot really protect life at all up until viability,&#8221; she said.
Amid the major legal wins and the tens of thousands of unborn lives saved, however, there have been losses for the pro-life movement as well.
At the ballot box, abortion has not been a winning issue for the pro-life movement.
The public&#8217;s reaction to the Dobbs ruling boosted the flailing Democrats five months later during the 2022 midterms. Voters in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.cnn.com/election/2022/exit-polls/national-results/general/us-house/0">ranked</a> abortion over inflation or crime as the most important issue in exit polls.
As the 2024 presidential election cycle heats up, Democrats have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-newsom-shares-wild-abortion-ad-showing-alabama-police-pulling-woman-over-asking-for-pregnancy-test" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hammered</a> the abortion issue and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jill-biden-will-bring-kate-cox-who-left-texas-for-abortion-to-state-of-the-union" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seized</a> on personal stories of women who were prevented from obtaining an abortion in their home state.
Misinformation has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ap-article-makes-dubious-suggestion-abortion-bans-caused-ers-to-turn-women-away" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spread</a> about women allegedly suffering miscarriages or other adverse outcomes due to state abortion bans.
Ballot initiatives on abortion in Ohio, Kentucky, and Kansas also did not go the way pro-life advocates hoped. This November, more abortion initiatives will appear on the ballot in South Dakota, Colorado, and Florida.
Meanwhile, more abortion cases have reached the Supreme Court, including cases dealing with the abortion pill and emergency room abortions.
Earlier this month in another setback, the court unanimously ruled against a group of pro-life doctors who were pushing for more Food and Drug Administration (FDA) restrictions on mifepristone, one of two drugs frequently taken together to cause an abortion.
The court is also set to rule <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-whats-happening-in-the-idaho-abortion-case-at-the-supreme-court">soon</a> in a case about Idaho&#8217;s abortion ban, the first time the court has considered whether a state abortion ban is constitutional since the demise of Roe. The Biden administration is arguing that Idaho’s abortion ban flies in the face of a federal law, the 1986 Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act, which requires federally funded hospitals to provide patients with stabilizing care. Idaho bans all abortions except to save the life of the mother or in cases of rape and incest.
Despite the setbacks, the many state bans are a beacon of hope for pro-life advocates, who hope to continue the legal momentum as well as continue to work to change the hearts and minds of pro-abortion Americans.
Meanwhile, women are sharing stories about how overturning Roe saved their babies&#8217; lives.
Baby Jacob&#8217;s birth mother walked into a Florida Planned Parenthood for a late-term abortion, but the state&#8217;s 15-week ban made her change her mind, and she picked Ashley and Dusty as his adoptive parents, the couple shared recently during a video press call with Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America.
Another mother who joined the call, Neesha, smiled as she described how Georgia’s heartbeat law saved the life of her baby boy, whom she gave up for adoption after initially considering abortion.
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“I’ve never seen a baby so happy,” she said. “They do everything I wish that I had the time to do. The way they love him and nurture him and care for him. They support him, they uplift him, they are encouraging to him.”
Neesha added that she does not think adoption is discussed enough. The organizations that help moms are not promoted as much as abortion, she said. If she could do it over again, she said, she does not think she would have chosen a different path for her baby.
“I hope the heartbeat law goes into effect across America because I think a lot of people do not understand the importance of carrying your child and making sure that baby has a life,” Neesha said.
“I believe that there’s help out there,” she added. “There are genuine people who actually care about not just the baby but the mother as well, making sure that she is okay during pregnancy and follow up after.”
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Here’s Where The Pro-Life Movement Stands 2 Years After Roe Overturned

Here's Where The Pro-Life Movement Stands 2 Years After Roe Overturned

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As pro-life conservatives and Republicans celebrate the second anniversary of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, President Joe Biden released a video urging Democrats to keep him in the White House for a second term to &#8220;fight like hell&#8221; against &#8220;extremism&#8221; and bring back complete abortion protections in all 50 states.
In a 45-second spot posted by the president&#8217;s account on YouTube on Sunday, Biden quotes his opponent Donald Trump&#8217;s support for the overturning of Roe. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has boasted that he &#8220;was able to kill Roe v. Wade.&#8221;
&#8220;Two years ago, the Supreme Court justices that Trump handpicked helped overturn Roe v. Wade,&#8221; Biden said. &#8220;Decades of progress shattered just because the last guy got four years in the White House. We know what will happen if he gets another four.&#8221;
The president then blasted Trump&#8217;s supporters as the video showed a clip of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Biden claimed that Republicans will push to ban abortion &#8220;nationwide&#8221; before they target &#8220;IVF and birth control next.&#8221;
&#8220;We&#8217;re up against extremism,&#8221; Biden continued. &#8220;Send me back to the White House and I&#8217;ll fight like hell to restore Roe v. Wade and protect American freedom.
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In a 6-3 decision on June 24, 2022, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/united-states-supreme-court-overturns-roe-v-wade-leaves-abortion-restrictions-to-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener">overturned</a> the high court&#8217;s 1973 decision that paved the way for the U.S. to become one of the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2021/us-abortion-laws-worldwide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">most radical</a> pro-abortion countries in the world. The 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health ruling was made possible by three Trump-appointed conservative justices — Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney-Barrett — joining Justices John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito.
While Chief Justice Roberts argued that the Dobbs decision did not need to go as far as overturning Roe, Alito wrote in the majority opinion that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.&#8221;
&#8220;Its reasoning was exceptionally weak, and the decision has had damaging consequences. And far from bringing about a national settlement of the abortion issue, Roe and Casey have enflamed debate and deepened division,” Alito added. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Biden and the Democratic Party launched a full-out abortion blitz immediately following the Dobbs decision, which the party says helped mobilize its base for the 2022 midterms, where Democrats across the country outperformed expectations. The pro-abortion side has won at the ballot box every time in the months and years after Roe&#8217;s reversal, even in red states such as Kansas, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Earlier this year, Trump came out <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-says-arizona-abortion-law-goes-too-far-that-will-be-straightened-out" target="_blank" rel="noopener">against</a> Arizona&#8217;s near-total abortion ban and questioned Florida&#8217;s six-week abortion limitations.
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“So for 52 years, people have been wanting to end Roe v. Wade to get it back to the states. We did that. It was an incredible achievement,” Trump said in April. “And now the states have it, and the states are putting out what they want. It’s the will of the people. So Florida is probably going to change; Arizona is definitely going to change. Everybody wants that to happen.”
Many Republicans also expressed their support for IVF after the Alabama Supreme Court <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alabama-supreme-court-says-couple-can-continue-wrongful-death-lawsuit-over-destruction-of-frozen-embryos" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> in February that frozen embryos should be recognized and protected as unborn children. Just weeks later, with support from Trump, Alabama Republican Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill into law that protected IVF providers following the state Supreme Court&#8217;s decision.

Biden Says Trump, Conservatives Are Pushing ‘Extremism’ In Video Marking 2nd Anniversary Of Roe Reversal

Biden Says Trump, Conservatives Are Pushing 'Extremism' In Video Marking 2nd Anniversary Of Roe Reversal

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The landmark Supreme Court decision reversing Roe v. Wade will be more than two years old by the time voters head to the polls for the 2024 election, but Democrats are pushing to make abortion a top-of-ballot issue for Americans.
Democratic Party leaders who gathered at the Lansdowne Resort in northern Virginia for their annual strategy retreat this week said abortion rights will be the most important issue for Democratic candidates as they seek to undo what one party leader called “MAGA abortion bans,” The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4456555-democrats-vow-to-make-abortion-issue-no-1-on-campaign-trail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), the Democratic House whip, told reporters that the fight over abortion will be a priority issue for the party for years to come.
“This is the pivotal issue of 2024. It is the fight that will determine the trajectory of the next four years, and the next four decades,” Clark said.
“Wherever we travel across the country, whoever we talk to, abortion is top of mind for our constituents and for voters,” the Democratic whip added. “Millions of people are suffering under the brutality of MAGA abortion bans. And those in states that still have protected abortion access are scared of the GOP’s march to a national abortion ban.”
Clark’s comments echo the Biden campaign’s recent messaging on abortion as it <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-campaign-attempts-to-tie-trump-to-state-abortion-bans-in-new-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seeks to tie</a> former President Donald Trump to abortion bans passed in Republican-led states following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in June 2022. Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential frontrunner, has stood by the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-boasts-role-ending-roe-wade-abortion-regulations/story?id=106280890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> he’s “proud” to have appointed three justices who helped reverse the 1973 ruling.
The Democrats&#8217; abortion messaging push comes as immigration and the economy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/immigration-is-now-top-voter-concern-beating-inflation-new-poll-shows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top the list</a> of issues for many Americans, and the president faces increasing criticism for his handling of the border crisis.
Last month, the Biden campaign doubled down on the abortion rhetoric, releasing an ad that featured Dr. Austin Dennard, a Dallas OBGYN and mother of three, who obtained an abortion out of state for an unborn child she says had a fetal condition with “absolutely no chance of survival.” In the ad, Dennard slammed Texas’ pro-life laws, saying that her life was “at risk” because of the conservative legislation. She also presented Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris as “leaders who will protect” abortion rights.
The Biden campaign ad, however, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-glaring-falsehood-at-the-center-of-bidens-new-abortion-ad" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mischaracterized Dennard’s pregnancy</a> as there is no medical evidence that supports the claim that her life was in danger because of the pregnancy, Dr. Ingrid Skop, an obstetrician-gynecologist, previously told The Daily Wire.
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“It is incorrect for her to say that she had to leave Texas to protect her life,” Skop said. “The reality is she left Texas because she wanted to terminate a baby who had a life-limiting condition.”
During remarks to reporters in Virginia, Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX), a co-chair of Biden&#8217;s re-election campaign, pointed to Dennard’s story as an example of why Democrats continue to make abortion a top issue.
“For those who pretend to believe in exceptions, or hide behind language that says there are exceptions, make no mistake about it: Texas has proven that Republicans do not believe in, and do not want, exceptions — not even when it’s threatening the life of a mother, not even when it threatens her ability to have children in the future,” said Escobar. “This is a very dire moment for American women.”
Democrats have <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/democrats-push-abortion-rights-heart-2024-campaign-2023-09-01/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">credited</a> their better-than-expected showing in the 2022 midterm elections to voters, especially young women, mobilizing around abortion rights in the wake of the Dobbs ruling. The party has also seen success in states such as Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, and Kentucky, where voters have moved to protect abortion rights.

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Dem Leaders Push To Make Abortion ‘The Pivotal Issue Of 2024’

Dem Leaders Push To Make Abortion 'The Pivotal Issue Of 2024'

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