Three and a half years ago, after 50 years of toil, the pro-life movement achieved the victory of a lifetime in reversing Roe v. Wade, finally freeing the people to take democratic action to protect women and children from abortion. By appointing three Supreme Court justices to the majority that handed down the historic decision, President Donald Trump was indispensable to this accomplishment.

Yet on the eve of the 53rd March for Life, the largest annual pro-life demonstration in America, some in the Republican Party are in danger of throwing away the victory — and with it their most reliable constituency.

We celebrate that 20 states now have laws in effect protecting unborn children and their mothers before the first trimester ends. Yet there are more abortions now than before — at least 1 million a year. That makes abortion the nation’s top cause of death by far, driven by covid-era policies implemented under President Joe Biden that allow abortion drugs like mifepristone to be bought online and shipped without the patient ever seeing a doctor in person. Flooded with these mail-order drugs, even the most pro-life states cannot enforce their laws — undermining Trump’s “back to the states” position. The Trump-Vance administration has not only allowed this to continue but has made things worse by approving a new generic form of the drug, expanding its availability.

The White House has suggested we’re blowing things out of proportion. Really? Abortion drugs cost more American lives than fentanyl, cocaine and heroin combined. Women are landing in the ER with severe complications, or suffering terrifying assaults and coercion. In a large national survey by one of the president’s own pollsters, 57 percent of liberal voters indicated they thought the Biden-era policy, which eliminated the requirement for in-person doctor visits, defies common sense. Yet the Trump administration slow-walks a promised safety study, while a short list of priorities it has found time to address includes redesigning the food pyramid, rescheduling marijuana, “running” Venezuela, shutting down puppy mills, championing whole milk, phasing out food dyes and naming the Gulf of America.