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Marjorie Dannenfelser has been dubbed in the media as “the woman who brought down” Roe v. Wade. While the Dobbs decision resulted from the efforts of millions of pro-life Americans over decades, Dannenfelser has indeed been at the tip of the spear. In this reflection, she praises the accomplishments of the pro-life movement to date while also sharing a bracingly realistic warning about the crossroads ahead.

Two years after the Dobbs victory, the pro-life movement has reached its most pivotal – and perilous – moment yet.

Today, 24 states have laws protecting unborn children at 15 weeks or sooner – including 20 states that protect babies when their heartbeat can be detected, with Florida as a new addition this year. Together, they protect the lives of more than 200,000 children annually.

This year 14 pro-life states also passed new laws strengthening their pro-life safety net, including funding for pregnancy resource centers, child care assistance, and health coverage for postpartum moms.

These are major gains made possible by Dobbs. Still, as the fight for life goes on, it’s clear that Dobbs was not the end of the pro-life movement – rather, it gave us a new beginning.

With more than 750,000 children still aborted each year in states like California, New York and Illinois, we cannot rest or take our gains for granted. Life is a human rights issue. In America, where you live should never determine whether you live.

There is still much work ahead to ensure that every mother and child is supported and protected.

Meanwhile we are just one election cycle away from having every gain for life ripped away. Joe Biden and the Democrats are hell-bent on banning protections for unborn children, spreading fear and lies, and forcing all-trimester abortion any time for any reason – even when babies can feel pain – as national law.

With total power in Washington they will rewrite the rules of the Senate, enact their woefully misnamed Women’s Health Protection Act, end the pro-life majority on the Supreme Court and shut down the pro-life safety net so that abortion is the only option left.

For the sake of unborn children and mothers all across America, we can’t let them win.

At SBA Pro-Life America, we won’t. Our team is working tirelessly every day to reach 10 million voters across eight key battleground states – Arizona, Georgia, Montana, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio – including making four million visits directly to voters’ homes to educate them about the enormous stakes of this election.

The more recent Supreme Court decision that leaves the Biden administration’s lax standards on abortion drugs in place is, unfortunately, a prime example. Even before Dobbs the abortion lobby pushed for dangerous abortion drugs to be widely available by mail order, online – touting them as more convenient, without mentioning that they’re highly profitable. After Dobbs it is their primary backstop to stay in business. Democrat-led states have even stockpiled these drugs and passed laws brazenly shielding mail-order abortionists who violate the laws of other states from investigation, regardless of how many women and children get hurt.

The abortion industry not only doesn’t see the child in the womb. They don’t see the woman or girl who is coerced, trafficked, or desperately seeking a way out. Their “solution” is to sell her a drug, “completely free of face-to-face interaction” with a doctor, and send her on her way – their message, more or less: “Have a nice life.” They aren’t there when the trauma hits, when she ends up in the hospital, when she sees the body of her child and realizes everything they told her about an unborn baby being a mere “clump of cells” was a lie.

Consider the story of Elizabeth. Her experience exposes the stark contrast between the abortion industry and the love and support of the pro-life movement.

Elizabeth wasn’t sure she wanted to have an abortion. Her boyfriend was insistent – and so was Planned Parenthood. From the moment she made contact with the abortion center, the pressure was on, to the point where she felt the only way to get out of the building was to consume the abortion drugs she’d been given. She was left unprepared for not only the “physical agony” but also the trauma of delivering her aborted child into the toilet.

Years later, during a subsequent pregnancy, Elizabeth knew she could not go through another abortion and turned to a local pregnancy resource center. As she writes, “They made good on their promise to walk with me from my first appointment to postpartum and beyond, and I have a beautiful, healthy boy who has been an absolute treasure in my life because of that.”

I can hardly think of a more perfect example of why the pro-life movement exists. This Dobbs anniversary must not be the last. For every generation yet to come, we have to give life a fighting chance.