The Woman and Child Protection Act cleared the lower chamber of the Texas legislature this week, advancing a bill that Big Abortion can’t stop. The courts have made it clear that the states and the people shall regulate abortion. Their elected representatives get to decide what is permitted. If the people disagree, they can replace them.
The Texas House of Representatives passed a major Pro-Life bill Thursday aimed at stopping mail-order abortion pills.
The Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 7 by Rep. Jeff Leach, sponsored by Sen. Bryan Hughes) will head to the Senate for final approval next week.
Chemical abortions are the biggest threat to preborn babies today. Abortion businesses are closing brick-and-mortar facilities but shifting their tactics online and underground. Activists send deadly pills into Texas illegally from other states and countries—to the tune of at least 19,000 orders of abortion drugs each year.
Vendors that sell abortion pills (Mifepristone and misoprostol) could be shut down in the State. Women harmed by the pills could sue the dispenser. The state could fine providers of the drugs up to $100,000.00 (women are not penalized for use). There’s also reportedly a provision to address abortion activists outside the state who violate this law.
It’s a massive win for the pro-life movement.
“This bill is about our fellow Texans. This bill is about our future fellow Texans, specifically. They are unborn, but they are alive, and they are worthy of our focus and our work here tonight on this bill. These fellow Texans have hands and feet. They have fingers and toes. They have eyes and eyelids, ears, and noses. They have unique personalities. They have brain waves. They have heartbeats. And they have rights.”
This should not appease those who are aggravated by the same body’s decision not to punish runaway Democrats who would not offer the same deference were roles reversed. It is, however, a step in the right direction.
I’m not intimately familiar with Texas state politics, but it seems likely that this will reach the governor and that he will sign it. Can New Hampshire protect women from drugs likely to send 10% of users to the hospital for sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event (up to 45 days after ingestion?
The educational campaign would have to be fierce, but it’s not impossible. Women can still get a surgical abortion in the Granite State up to the sixth month of pregnancy, after which almost no one but radical democrats thinks it is appropriate.
