The Pro-Life Fight Will Never End

Ian Haworth
Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:29:27 -0700
Opinion

When the landmark Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, the pro-life movement celebrated a victory many assumed would never come. For this victory, President Donald Trump undeniably deserves praise, at the very least because of his impact on the makeup of the Supreme Court that overruled the left's hallowed (and fictional) constitutional protections for the murder of the unborn.

But here's the problem: It hasn't looked too good for the pro-life movement ever since.

Sure, there have been some legislative victories with several states outlawing the most visually brutal forms of abortion, such as abortion up to the moment of birth, but if the latest report from the Guttmacher Institute gives us anything to go on, it could be said that we won a battle while continuing to lose the war.
Updated: Tue Mar 24, 2026

When the landmark Supreme Court decision Dobbs v. Jackson overruled Roe v. Wade in 2022, the pro-life movement celebrated a victory many assumed would never come. For this victory, President Donald Trump undeniably deserves praise, at the very least because of his impact on the makeup of the Supreme Court that overruled the left's hallowed (and fictional) constitutional protections for the murder of the unborn.

But here's the problem: It hasn't looked too good for the pro-life movement ever since.

Sure, there have been some legislative victories with several states outlawing the most visually brutal forms of abortion, such as abortion up to the moment of birth, but if the latest report from the Guttmacher Institute gives us anything to go on, it could be said that we won a battle while continuing to lose the war.

According to the policy organization, an estimated 1,126,000 abortions were carried out in the United States last year, "largely unchanged from the estimated 1,124,000 in 2024, and still the highest number of abortions in the country since 2009."

The brutal fact is that abortion is on the rise again.

Not only that, but the Guttmacher Institute also found that 142,000 women traveled across state lines to get an abortion (albeit fewer than in 2023 and 2024) of whom 62,000 lived in states with some form of total abortion ban, while so-called "telehealth provision" increased from 74,000 to 91,000.

Then, as I pointed out in my syndicated column in October 2025, there is the completely ignored epidemic of baby-murdering that is a by-design feature of the country's in vitro fertilization industry, in which millions of embryos — independent human life — are stored indefinitely or destroyed.

Whether it's through abortion-friendly states maintaining their governmentally endorsed worship of baby murder, loopholes (such as telehealth services) that are enabling women to skirt existing legislation, or the unimaginable monsoon of comparatively invisible abortions that are being carried out by IVF clinics across the country, the pro-life movement is losing.

Part of this is rooted in the unfortunate fact that Trump — despite his role in achieving the overturning of Roe v. Wade — is not pro-life. But greater fault lies at the feet of the pro-life movement itself, of which I am a member.

For too long, Roe v. Wade was the lone demon in our crosshairs, as if it somehow represented the final boss in a videogame that pitted heroic pro-lifers against the villainous abortionists and their lackeys.

Instead, it feels like Roe v. Wade is featured in the opening credits of a sequel, in which our upgraded opponents are more radical, more motivated and more numerous than ever before.

What needs to change? Well, first the pro-life issue must return as an immutable pillar of American conservatism. But more importantly, we as a movement must never again make the mistake of focusing solely on the issue of abortion that can be solved by one law, one court case or one media cycle.

No, because this is a never-ending battle with the fundamental selfishness and narcissism deep within human nature itself, and we must be ready to engage in this battle knowing that it has no end.

Let's get started.