With the first anniversary of the Supreme Court decision returning abortion to democratic control, national leaders celebrated the birth of tens, or hundreds, of thousands of unborn children saved by pro-life laws.
Although precise estimates vary, “the best guess that we have is about 200,000 children were born this year that would not have been born” apart from the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, that’s according to Senator James Lankford of Oklahoma.
The Daily Caller found that The Dobbs decision, which took the shackles off voters and lawmakers to enact life-saving protections for the unborn, eliminated 96% of abortions in the 13 states that enacted pro-life protections between the June 24 decision and year’s end.
25 states have enacted some pro-life protections since the ruling.
Saving 200,000 babies — the upper end of an estimate analysis from Susan B. Anthony Pro-life America — would be enough people to fill a city the size of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Vancouver, Washington; or Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Republicans and Democrats had starkly different reactions to the one-year anniversary, much as they did to the landmark pro-life ruling.
Senator Marco Rubio led 20 fellow Republican senators in introducing a resolution praising the Dobbs decision.
While House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries quoted the Bible to give Democrats hope they will again remove all pro-life protections from unborn children.