After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision returned the abortion issue to the people and their elected representatives in June 2022, 14 states now have active near-total abortion bans that have reduced elective abortions in those states down to zero. While reports indicate that many women from these states are still getting elective abortions through out-of-state travel or telemedicine, data from January to June 2023 indicate birth rates have increased in states banning abortion at all stages of pregnancy to the rate of 2.3 percent relative to states where abortion is unrestricted. This rate translates to these bans saving about 32,000 babies in those six months alone.

As the man watches, he winces as if in pain, and shakes his head as if disgusted by what he is seeing. “Still kinda gross to me,” he says afterward. “I don’t like to see it.”
When the interviewer tells him, “What you watched was an abortion procedure within the first three months of pregnancy…” the man asks, “That was the first three months?”

Americans are led to believe that surrogacy is an altruistic gift when it actually is an unaccountable, Wild West industry that prioritizes adult wishes over the needs and rights of children.
As Cook told the Daily Mail: “You always hear the happy stories, but people are never told horror stories like mine.”