For Immediate Release: January 23, 2026
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Washington, D.C. – In response to Vice President JD Vance’s remarks today at the 53^rd annual March for Life, SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser issued the following statement:

“When Vice President Vance said in his speech, ‘I ask you to look where the fight for life stood just one decade ago, and now look where it stands today,’ that comparison reveals a harsh reality.

“The clearest measure of whether the pro-life movement is winning or losing is the number of abortions occurring each year. According to the latest statistics, there are at least 1.1 million abortions occurring in America annually post-Roe. This compares to 874,000 abortions in 2016 – a 30% increase.

“Because of the indispensable role President Trump played in the overturning of Roe, we have the opportunity to save lives and serve women. But it is because of the inaction of the Trump-Vance administration on abortion drugs that this opportunity isn’t being realized – and abortions are going up, not down.

“In the wake of Dobbs, Biden eliminated the in-person dispensing requirement for abortion drugs – flooding the market with mail-order abortions without any meaningful medical oversight. As a result, the Trump-Vance position of ‘back to the states’ is being undermined every single day as abortion drugs flood illegally into pro-life states.

“Women are also paying the price, with horrifying cases of abuse and coercion emerging – including in Vice President Vance’s home state of Ohio.

“It is time for the Trump-Vance administration to act and at a minimum restore in-person dispensing, getting these dangerous drugs out of the mail. Doing so would allow states to enforce their laws, protect countless unborn lives, and restore essential medical oversight to stop the coercion and abuse of women nationwide.”

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America is a network of more than one million pro-life Americans nationwide, dedicated to ending abortion by electing national leaders and advocating for laws that save lives, with a special calling to promote pro-life women leaders.

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