I remember June 24, 2022 quite clearly. For me, it was a pins and needles moment, especially in light of the leak of the draft United States Supreme Court decision on Dobbs v. Jackson's Women's Health. Despite this obvious breach to try to force a change in outcome, pro-lifers and others were still shocked that by a 6-3 decision, the highest court in the land unraveled the 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The Dobbs decision not only overturned Roe, but neutered the confusion, ugly battles, and miasma of laws that were the 50-year-long harvest of that flawed decision. Now individual states could make choices on how they would handle the questions about the unborn and what restrictions or freedoms they would uphold concerning abortion. Pro-life organizations praised the SCOTUS decision and savored the victory, while rightly predicting that the fight would continue not only with the pro-abortionists' push for chemical abortion but in combating the new wave of violence against pro-life organizations and pregnancy resource centers. On the other side, the pro-abortionists cried about the return to back-alley abortions and restricted access by minorities and low-income persons to proper health care.
After three years, the Dobbs decision still stands as a watershed moment for both sides who have been forced to reassess, pivot, and recalibrate. While it is the same battleground for Life, the tactics employed have had to change, and must continue to change.
3rd Anniversary of historical Dobbs ruling: Remembering the headlines pic.twitter.com/Xqa71xjR4l
— Family Policy Institute of Washington (@FPIW) June 24, 2025
Kansas Sen. Dr. Roger Marshall used the Dobbs Day anniversary to celebrate the ruling's victory, and to lobby for the passage of the Big Beautiful Bill reconciliation package, which includes a provision to remove federal funding for Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA).
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On the third anniversary of the Dobbs decision, a historic milestone for the pro-life movement, we've made significant strides in building a culture that protects the unborn — but our work is far from complete.
— Dr. Roger Marshall (@RogerMarshallMD) June 24, 2025
Let’s pass President @realDonaldTrump’s reconciliation bill to… pic.twitter.com/HaJoDm1a2t
Marshall's sentiments were echoed by Indiana Rep. Rudy Yakym and IL Rep. Mary Miller. Not to be outdone, the pro-abortion Democrats are also marking the anniversary, decrying the results of the ruling and championing how they have passed their state laws to counter it. While Democrats failed to get their pro-baby-killing presidential candidate in the White House, and some state constitution bills to codify abortion as a right did fail, they are bound and determined to maintain their deceptive framing of the issue. Using terms like "reproductive care," they tell women that their rights and freedoms have been taken away and prevent them from getting quality healthcare.
Women have less rights than they did just a few years ago because of Roe’s repeal.
— Rep. Gwen Moore (@RepGwenMoore) June 24, 2025
Republicans want to go even further.
On this Dobbs anniversary, we all must recommit to reproductive freedom. Women should be able to control their own bodies.
The Democrat Party has even launched a new campaign ahead of the midterm elections: "GOP Abortion," to expose Senate Republicans who have been anti-choice, especially those who represent blue dot cities in red states.
KDP Statement on Dobbs Decision Anniversary As War on Women’s Health Care Continues pic.twitter.com/1mwRuf5baV
— Kentucky Democrats (@KyDems) June 24, 2025
Finally, you have the sad trombone tales from the legacy media spotlighting "doctors" in states that have heavy abortion restrictions, claiming that they cannot properly treat patients if they cannot give them an abortion.
In the months after Texas banned abortion in nearly all situations, Dr. Lou Rubino stayed and continued treating patients in Austin.
“I just had in mind I could still do something—I would be able to do some good, help some people,” says Rubino, who had lived and worked in the state for years.
But one day, Rubino was treating a patient. She was 16. Pregnant. And she was telling Rubino that she needed an abortion.
“I knew that she really needed that abortion, just like all my patients need their abortions," Rubino says. “I knew inside of my soul, in some very deep place, this is wrong. For me to not do her abortion, for me to refer her out of state, for me to tell a pregnant person to get in their car and drive hours—putting them at risk for blood clot—to go get their health care somewhere else—that I should be able to do—is morally wrong.”
Heaven forbid they get a blood clot while trying to flee to a state that allows them to abort their baby! The cognitive dissonance of supposed healthcare providers is quite stunning.
“Coming to that impasse was when I said: that’s it,” Rubino says. They realized that “to do the kind of care that I do, I needed to leave.” So they did.
Rubino is not alone. In the three years since the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that protected the right to an abortion, many doctors have decided to leave states they had been practicing in for years, after lawmakers enacted restrictions, and move to states where abortion is legal.
CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists Dr. Christina Francis is working to combat the lies of the Democrats and pro-abortionists who continue to promote this fallacy that women and doctors are in danger of being criminally liable if they seek help for a miscarriage or ectopic pregnancies, and that women will be restricted from receiving necessary reproductive care.
A full three years have passed since Roe v. Wade was overturned, yet abortion activists still refuse to acknowledge the overwhelmingly positive effect the decision is having on women and children. Instead, they continue to sow fear and misinformation to advance their abortion agenda, telling women the falsehood that they will be unable to get essential miscarriage treatment or lifesaving medical interventions.
Indeed, the only thing preventing women from receiving the care they need is the very narrative promoted by these activists, who claim to seek protections for women’s reproductive health. It’s long past time for them to realize the truth: Pregnant women have the same access to the quality healthcare they need post-Roe as they did before.
It’s time to set the record straight.
So what are the facts? Despite the unborn lives that have been saved since Roe v. Wade's overturn, abortions are indeed on the rise. According to Susan B. Anthony (SBA) Pro-Life America president Marjorie Dannenfelser, "there is a lot of work to do," noting that the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that at least 1.1 million abortions still occurred between July 2023 to June 2024.
A fact that abortion abolitionists, a ramped-up faction of the pro-life movement, have been pointing out. In several states, this arm has sought to pass laws that not only recognize fetal personhood, but to make anyone who participates in the act of abortion, including the mother, liable for murder.
PSA: On the anniversary of Dobbs.
— Not a Victim (@Not_a_Victim_) June 24, 2025
It is still legal for women to murder their own preborn babies in all 50 states and they are doing it by the tens of thousands per year.
Babies need the equal protection of the laws.
Foundation to Abolish Abortion president Bradley Pierce said in this statement:
Though three years have passed, the act of murdering a preborn baby remains legal in all fifty states, including conservative states where Pro-Life leaders claim they have banned abortion.
While the abortion mills have closed in many of these states, the abortion pills and other self-induced methods of abortion remain legal for pregnant women. That is because the laws written by the Pro-Life establishment explicitly enable child sacrifice to continue in this manner.
As a result, instead of abortion numbers decreasing, we have seen them continue to increase over the past three years compared to the final years under Roe. But even as abortion numbers are rising, Republican attention to the issue is falling among both elected officials and much of the voting base.
Today, Pro-Life establishment leaders appear to have no real plan on how to deal with growing numbers of babies murdered amid the soaring popularity of self-induced abortion.
SBA's Dannenfelser would disagree. Her organization is working on lobbying Congress to not just defund PPFA, but to change FDA regulations to restrict access to the abortion pill Mifepristone only to medical providers. SBA also pledges to support and finance pro-life candidates and incumbents in the midterms.
Abortions may have increased, but so have the lives of babies saved.
Over one million abortions take place each year, but since Dobbs v. Jackson there has been a greater rise in saved lives. According to Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and colleagues, “abortion bans in 14 states resulted in 22,180 additional live births and 478 additional infant deaths above what would have been expected in the absence of these bans.” The fertility rate was higher than expected in particular groups, such as racial minorities, unmarried individuals, younger individuals, Medicaid beneficiaries, and individuals without college degrees.
Dr. Francis considers her work to further the gains of Dobbs is to educate women and their doctors on the truth about healthcare and medical freedom.
For example, despite rampant claims to the contrary, the number of obstetrician gynecologists in pro-life states is growing at a higher rate than in states without pro-life protections, according to a Journal of the American Medical Association article published this year. Yet the media continues shamelessly to rely on interviews with the same handful of doctors to spin their shortage narratives. Pregnant women and their families are also able to access ongoing compassionate care and support at our nation’s network of nearly 3,000 pregnancy resource centers, which have served nearly 975,000 patients since 2022.
We also have seen improvement in maternal mortality rates in states that have restricted abortion, despite fear-inducing claims that pro-life laws would do the opposite. Idaho, for example, has some of the strongest pro-life protections in the country and saw its maternal mortality numbers improve tremendously since Roe’s overturn.
Three years later, what we see is that if the Dobbs decision did nothing else, it changed the calculus in favor of Life. It also put the responsibility back on the individual citizen to keep up the fight, hold their elected representatives to account, and most importantly, to model a culture of Life that will transform hearts and minds.
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