Guest Post by Pro-life Leader Frank Pavone, National Director,Priests for Life
A number of articles over recent days, including the Wall Street Journal’s“The Antiabortion Movement is Turning on Trump,”do not speak for the entire pro-life movement.
As a national leader in the pro-life movement since 1993, I organize quarterly meetings of other national leaders. At my address to the 60 leaders gathered at our February meeting I explained that the pro-life movement is in the best position it has ever been to achieve its goals, thanks precisely to President Trump. It was met with wide acceptance.
It’s become common to say, as the Wall Street Journal article does, that the number of abortions has increased. Yet the annualStatus of Abortion report for 2026by the National Right to Life Committee concludes that the answer to the question of whether there are more abortions now than under Roe is “We don’t know.”
The Alan Guttmacher Institute has started using projections from smaller data sets of clinics and that has replaced more comprehensive gathering of numbers.
Moreover, the sale of an abortion drug doesn’t mean it was taken. Some stockpile these drugs, or change their minds after they purchase them.
We do know, however, thatlaws restricting or prohibiting abortion save lives.
On the abortion pill, the Trump Administration is researching its health impacts, but not based on political ideology. That’s what Democrat administrations have done. Instead, it is pursuing scientific research that will not be easily dismissed. The down side? It takes more time.
If the current administration announced that it has abandoned its study, or found the abortion drugs to be just fine, I’d complain. But that’s not what’s happening.
As for leaving abortion to the states, under Roe, the court told the states they could not protect the unborn before viability. Under Dobbs,they may.We need to get to the point wherethey must.But to go from “reverse” to “drive,” you have to pass through “neutral,” and that’s where we are now.
Source: The Gateway Pundit
