Pro-lifers have always been quick to point out that repealing Roe v. Wade was never going to be the end of the abortion fight but rather a part of the beginning.

And if you need proof of that, you can find it in the grim fact of 20,000 abortion pills crisscrossing the country day and night:

At least 20,000 packets of abortion pills were shipped to people in the United States in the six months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, two sources with knowledge of the situation told VICE News.

The suppliers of these estimated 20,000 packets are neither abortion clinics nor abortion telehealth organizations, but instead operate outside of the U.S. legal health care system. The demand for their pills, as well as their success at shipping them out undetected, are evidence of the thriving underground abortion network that has sprung up since Roe's demise devastated access to abortion clinics.

There have been many apt comparisons made between abortion and slavery: The dehumanization, the brutality, the monetization of it all. But there's one key way in which the two are different: It is much easier to facilitate abortions than it is to enslave people. That fact alone means the abortion fight will continue for much longer, if ever it ends.

And it's worth underscoring just how much fear and paranoia informs the abortion movement as a whole:

However, just because an estimated 20,000 abortion pills were mailed out does not necessarily mean that 20,000 abortions have already occurred off the grid. Some of these pills may have been requested by people who were looking to stock up in case of a future unwanted pregnancy.

Don't get comfortable.

The battle for precious human lives has only just begun.