Right to Life of Michigan is taking its abortion fight down a new road now that the Supreme Court has said state legislatures can determine abortion rights in each state. With that, the advocacy organization is turning its focus to the abortion pill.

“The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services 2021 report revealed what we feared, the abortion pill is the leading method of abortion,” Right to Life of Michigan posted on Facebook. “We need to continue to expose abortion for what it is—the killing of innocent humans.”

The state report indicates that 30,074 women had abortions in Michigan in 2021, a 1.4% increase from 2020, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Only 1.3% of those cases were referred by a physician and more than half of the women had had at least one prior abortion, the report says.

Approximately two-thirds of the women who had abortions in Michigan in 2021 were over the age of 25, the report said, with medical abortions accounting for 51.1% of Michigan abortions.

Right to Life (RTL) is a national organization dedicated to defending the lives of the unborn through education and legislation, its website says. There are more than 3,000 local RTL chapters in addition to 50 statewide affiliates and the national federation, the online site says.

The Catholic Church has maintained a strong stance against abortion for centuries, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). The Catechism directs that, reading, "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, which is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law" (No. 2271).