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States-Only Abortion Experiment ‘A Failure’: An Inside Look at the Pro-Life Movement’s Federal Strategy

A pro-life leader told the Daily Signal that returning the issue of abortion to the states was a strategic failure of the movement, adding that pro-life advocates must turn now to a federal strategy.

Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of SBA Pro-Life America, said the movement is “not better off” following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade and returned the regulation of abortion to federal and state lawmakers. “The states-only experiment is a failure,” she said.

Dannenfelser pointed to the rising abortion rate as evidence of the failure. The pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute reports 1,126,000 abortions in the United States in 2025, a 21% increase from the pre-Dobbs era.

Even states with the strictest abortion laws are seeing abortion rates skyrocket. Texas, for example, banned nearly all abortion procedures in 2021, but saw a 40% increase in abortions from April 2022 to January 2025.

Declaring abortion a “states’ issue” has allowed the federal government to wipe its hands clean of abortion legislation, Dannenfelser argued. She called out policymakers for shifting responsibility, accusing them of using states’ rights as a........

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