Here’s a news flash on something you’ve probably heard very little about: The number of abortions was actually up in 2024.
Wasn’t the overturning of Roe v. Wade supposed to lead to thousands of back-alley, unregulated, unsupervised abortions?
For a while, it seemed that way, according to many Democratic operatives and their friends in the media. And that resonated into electoral gold for the left. What should’ve been a Republican red wave in 2022 became just a ripple, in large part because of the abortion issue.
But, over time, the issue has dissipated and is almost at the same level of intensity it was before Roe was overturned. That’s because most abortions these days are not taking place in an operating room, but rather, with a pill.
The Plan B abortion pill, which can be obtained quite easily, is the preferred method of terminating a pregnancy these days. Even if there are some laws trying to prevent access to the pills, it is almost impossible to prevent someone who really wants it from getting it.
That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have a real debate as to how available these options are, but it does show that the abortion issue itself is now losing its potency. And that’s because the crisis that was supposed to have developed, never actually did.