By: Canon Georgette Forney, Anglicans For Life, President
When the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022 overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that legalized abortion, I expected women would choose to carry their pregnancies to term rather than abort. I believed there would be an increase in the number of women seeking help as they embraced parenting.
Instead, abortion numbers have steadily increased each year since 2022, while interest in and support for protecting life has declined across all demographics—even among ordained leadership in the Anglican Communion.
The Guttmacher Institute’s recent 2025 data reports approximately 1,126,000 abortions in the United States, up from an estimated 950,000 in 2022.
That means more than 3,000 unborn babies are dying each day.
This rise is especially troubling because thirteen states have enacted total abortion bans. Yet the FDA’s 2023 decision to allow Mifepristone—the chemical abortion pill, to be prescribed via telehealth without an in-person visit and shipped directly to patients has changed everything. The abortion pill now accounts for about two-thirds of all abortions nationwide. Anyone can impersonate a pregnant woman, order the pills online, and have them delivered to any address in all 50 states.
This is particularly upsetting because a 2025 study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that nearly 11 percent of women who take Mifepristone experience serious adverse health events. State bans have little effect on preventing chemical abortions, and the 1873 Comstock Law, which prohibits shipping items intended for abortion is simply not being enforced.
The ability to bypass state bans has emboldened pro-abortion activists. They are now working to establish abortion not only as a legal right but as a religious right. Breakpoint reported that an Indiana judge blocked a pro-life law, ruling that it violates religious freedom based on a lawsuit by the ACLU and Hoosier Jews for Choice.
Radical-left state legislatures are also advancing bills under the guise of “reproductive freedom” that quietly dismantle protections for babies even after birth. A Maryland bill, for example, would limit medical professionals’ reporting of infant deaths unless there is “clear evidence of external abuse,” weakening safeguards against infanticide.
Nine states plus Washington, D.C., currently have no gestational limit on abortion.
Encouraged by these successes, the abortion industry is aggressively recruiting the next generation. The Youth Abortion Support Collective is training students as young as 14 to become “abortion doulas,” teaching them to provide peer support before, during, and after abortions and to help friends access the procedure. In other words, it is grooming young people to act as abortion promoters among their peers.
All of this is happening while many Americans mistakenly believe the issue ended with Dobbs. Even some ordained Anglican clergy have asked me why Anglicans For Life is still fighting abortion, thinking “the issue has been settled.”
While these actions and attitudes could undermine our goals, our staff remains determined to uphold the sacredness of life as taught in Scripture. We have renewed our commitment to reducing abortions nationwide.
We are revisiting how we use our resources, events, partnerships, and publications while prayerfully seeking God’s wisdom for new strategies. Here’s what we are doing right now:
- AFL partnered with 78 other pro-life organizations to urge the Department of Justice to restore laws preventing abortion drugs from being prescribed via telehealth and mailed across state lines.
- Our 4th annual World’s Largest Baby Shower is underway, with churches donating baby supplies to pregnancy centers to give women confidence to choose life.
- Posting Silent No More Awareness Campaign testimonies and memes about how bad the abortion pills are, on social media so others can see how abortion destroys life.
Looking ahead, AFL with Daisy’s help, plans to mail “Speak Up for Life” booklets and “Prevent the One Abortion” brochures to our 235 partner churches, equip Silent No More participants with “I Regret My Abortion” and “I Regret Lost Fatherhood” signs, use social media daily to share facts, Scripture, and Life-Affirming stories, and create clergy resources rooted in Jesus’ command to love our neighbor.
We remain committed to educating, advocating, and providing Life-Affirming ministry. And we hope you will join us – together we can show the world what the Church can do to protect and honor life.