From 1997 to 2022, WORLD reviewed pro-life progress and regress over the previous year every January on or near the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1973 decision to legalize abortion. After the court overturned Roe v. Wade with its Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization ruling in June 2022, we moved our annual pro-life issue to coincide with the anniversary of Roe’s reversal.
Pro-life groups scramble to adapt to a new political landscape post-Dobbs
Issue Date: Jun 24, 2023
With the inauguration of a new pro-abortion president, pro-lifers in 2021 took their fight to the states and celebrated gains in the courts that drew the ire of the Biden administration
Issue Date: Jan 29, 2022
Surgical abortions have slowed, but pills and chemicals are reaching more homes -- and killing more babies
Issue Date: Jan 30, 2021
Groups are turning old abortion centers into pro-life spaces, but the facilities’ horrific histories are difficult for many to overcome
Issue Date: Jan 18, 2020
African-American leaders embrace abortion even as it decimates the black community, but black pro-life activists are fighting for black lives
Issue Date: Jan 19, 2019
Chances for life seem slim for thousands of tiny embryos frozen in storage or subjected to questionable tests meant to weed out ‘misfits.’ But some advocates and families are on a mission to rescue these unborn babies from an uncertain fate
Issue Date: Jan 20, 2018
Increasingly popular but as risky as ever, chemical abortion raises new challenges for the pro-life movement
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2017
Planned Parenthood benefits from a culture that disguises what the organization truly is and does
Issue Date: Jan 23, 2016
America at its best follows the philosophy of Emma Lazarus over that of Margaret Sanger
Issue Date: Jan 24, 2015
Roe v. Wade continues its grim business, but pro-life activity is saving lives, too
Issue Date: Jan 26, 2013
Revitalized by young activists and growing support, the pro-life movement faces new tensions
Issue Date: Jan 28, 2012
With our most-observed secular holiday, Super Bowl day, coming this year on Feb. 6, we’re hearing a lot about what happens in “the red zone,” the part of the football field that extends from the 20-yard line to the end zone. Meanwhile, abortion proponents are defending their own bloody red zone against a reinvigorated pro-life movement
Issue Date: Jan 29, 2011
Understanding abortion in the past will help us fight it today
Issue Date: Jan 17, 2009
As Roe v. Wade turns 35, some in Hollywood are changing their minds about “choice,” and it’s showing up on the silver screen
Issue Date: Jan 12, 2008
The Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion turns 34 years old this month, just as seven pro-life Democrats join the new majority on Capitol Hill. Here’s what the power shift could mean for the pre-born
Issue Date: Jan 20, 2007
For 33 years many American women have believed that what’s legal must be OK, only to have their consciences, moments or decades later, tell them differently
Issue Date: Jan 21, 2006
Mississippi pro-life activists’ success in fighting abortion shows not only can some battles be won at the state level, but it can be done with broad bipartisan support
Issue Date: Jan 22, 2005
Even though churches have lost significant influence over society, they do at least retain authority over their own members. A look at churches that are considering the exercise of discipline over pro-abortion politicians
Issue Date: Jan 17, 2004
As Roe turns 30, are medical facts and a determined pro-life movement causing legalized abortion to show its age, or is it just becoming more entrenched? While others debate the question, abortion opponents quietly legislate, litigate, and demonstrate compassion
Issue Date: Jan 18, 2003
Senate shifts, terrorist attacks, and biological warfare against the sanctity of human life leave the question: Whatever happened to the abortion issue?
Issue Date: Jan 19, 2002
More kids exit foster care for permanent adoptive families, but pro-lifers hope for more.
Issue Date: Jan 13, 2001
Last week was one that pushed Christian and conservative journalists and pro-life leaders to remember biblical injunctions against envy
Issue Date: Jan 22, 2000
Even as the abortion culture sinks itself deeper into the fabric of American life, pro-lifers are preparing to mourn the 26th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision, several factors continue to chip away at its acceptability. Political challenges, cultural argument, and compassionate alternatives are slowly but surely helping to form the consensus that abortion is wrong. A look back at abortion in America since the last dark Roe anniversary
Issue Date: Jan 16, 1999
... and one step back: Pro-lifers still face challenges as new as was Roe vs. Wade in 1973
Issue Date: Jan 17, 1988
The January 22, 1973, Roe vs. Wade ruling has been a death sentence for 30 million-plus preborn infants in the United States. For 24 years babies have died for any reason and no reason. But in the 1990s, with the development of new genetic tests that can more safely and less expensively diagnose genetic disorders in utero, many young humans are at risk for one very specific reason: They have Down Syndrome
Issue Date: Jan 18, 1997
