This is very good news. We will have to see if abortions in neighboring states skyrocketed but I’d bet that a lot more babies will be born in Texas in upcoming months.
“The data confirms that the Texas Heartbeat Act has saved thousands of lives,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser in a press release. “Even greater potential is ahead as we await the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dobbs case, which could restore the right of all states to modernize our laws and protect unborn children and mothers prior to viability. Seventy-one percent of Americans want far greater limits on abortion than the Court’s precedents currently allow. If the Court finally unshackles the people and their elected representatives, as it should, for the first time in generations they will have the opportunity to enact their consensus in the law and save countless little boys and girls waiting to be born.”
The Hill:
The number of abortions performed in the state fell from 5,404 in August to just 2,197 in September. The Texas heartbeat law, S.B. 8, bans all abortions after fetal cardiac activity is detected, typically around six weeks of pregnancy, before most women know they are pregnant.
The figures from the Texas Health Department, which were released earlier this month, show the dramatic impact of the law just one month after it took effect. Data has not been released for the rest of 2021 beyond September.
The law authorizes citizens to file private lawsuits against those who perform, aid or abet an abortion after six weeks. Successful suits under S.B. 8, which contains no exceptions for rape or incest, fetch at least $10,000.
So far, no lawsuits have been filed, but several clinics ceased providing abortions.
You had me at “several clinics ceased providing abortions.”
You can create a culture that values life. That works. I hope we see more of an uptick in adoption, rather than abortions in neighboring states.
One thing I’ve seen online is people saying this is just forcing women into back alley abortions which means we’ll go back to the days when thousands of women died every year due to botched abortions. But the problem is, that was always a myth. We know that. Even the WaPo and NY Times say that’s a myth.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, former director of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (now known as NARAL). Dr. Nathanson, who became a pro-lifer, wrote, “How many deaths were we talking about when abortion was illegal? In NARAL, we generally emphasized the frame of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always 5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year. I confess that I knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the ‘morality’ of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics? The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible.”
It was a lie for the all-holy cause of abortion.
Truth will prevail. Eventually.
God bless Texas.
