Pro-Life News

The strongest evidence that pro-life laws work comes not from industry abortion counts but from birth data. Texas first showed increased births after early pro-life protections took effect before Dobbs. Since then, national studies have reinforced the same conclusion. A major study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), authored by researchers generally sympathetic to abortion, found more than 22,000 "excess births" (births "above expectation") in 2023 in states enforcing pro-life protections. Other studies, such as one from the Economic Inquiry, obtained similar results. They showed a 1.6 percent increase in the overall birth rate in states with full protective laws. Read more...