Four years after fall of Roe, abortion rate is on the rise despite pro-life gains
The ease of obtaining mail-order abortion pills has led to an increase of 100,000 preborn children being killed in the US from 2020 to 2025.
Wed Jun 24, 2026 - 7:00 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Four years ago today, Roe v. Wade died, predeceased by over 65 million preborn children. On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Dobbs v. Jackson decision, overturning the ruling that had mandated legal abortion in all 50 states.
Within weeks, near-total abortion bans had gone into effect in Arkansas, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. An additional four states — Georgia, Iowa, Florida, and South Carolina — now have six-week “heartbeat” bans on the books. Twenty-eight states ban abortion at later stages. All these laws were impossible under Roe.
That is the good news. The bad news is that abortion rates have gone up rather than down since Roe fell. The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s research arm, estimates 930,160 abortions in the United States in 2020. In 2025, they estimated 1,126,000 abortions nationwide. This is up starkly from the lowest point since 1973, an estimated 862,000 abortions in 2017. Roe is gone, but the bloodbath continues.
A key reason for these grim numbers is the decision of the Biden administration’s FDA to temporarily lift the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone (the abortion pill) during Covid in April 2021, a change that became permanent in January 2023. Once people no longer had to go into a clinic or hospital to get abortion pills from a certified prescriber, abortionists set up a massive network of mail-order abortion pill dispensaries.
Biden’s Covid era rule — which the Trump administration has refused to rescind — has essentially nullified laws in pro-life states, permitting a network of abortion organizations to mail deadly pills from abortion states to pro-life states. This has triggered a series of lawsuits from pro-life states like Louisiana and Texas against abortion states like New York, which have in turn passed “sanctuary” laws protecting abortionists from being extradited and tried for violating state laws.
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