There are now more annual abortions in the United States after the overturn of Roe v. Wade than under the controversial Supreme Court decision, a trend which abortion supporters and activists now celebrate.
More than one million abortions are estimated to have occurred last year, according to research from the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion research entity, reflecting the highest levels of murdered preborn babies in over a decade. That trend comes as more women are turning to abortion pills and other methods of self-induced abortion rather than soliciting abortion facilities.
Rebecca Gomperts, the Dutch pro-abortion physician who runs the abortion pill provider website Aid Access, confirmed in an interview with NBC News that “the obstacles are actually lower than before Dobbs,” a reference to the Supreme Court decision which overturned Roe.
“For people that didn’t have the financial resources or the infrastructure, the logistical structures in place to go to a clinic,” Gomperts continued, “I think the landscape now is much better.”
Other activists interviewed by NBC News said that the abortion landscape under Dobbs is not “as bad as we expected,” especially as a wave of support for abortion groups enabled them to bankroll women who wanted to travel for abortions or order abortion pills through the mail.
Serra Sippel, the executive director of the Brigid Alliance, a network that offers abortion seekers resources and funds when they travel for an abortion, indeed commented to NBC News that “it was kind of all hands on deck after Dobbs to get people the information and access to make sure that these abortion bans were not going to stop people from being able to access care.”
Nearly two-thirds of abortions in the United States are now conducted with abortion pills that usually rely on a combination of mifepristone, which blocks a pregnancy hormone called progesterone, as well as misoprostol, which forces delivery of the murdered preborn baby.
Christian anti-abortion activists have noted that even the Republican states which claim to have banned abortion maintain laws which disallow the prosecution of women who willfully order abortion pills, a reality which has enabled a rise in self-induced abortions in those states after Dobbs.
