Texas lawmakers advanced a bill Monday that would crack down on mail-order abortion pills. Today’s initial vote presented the biggest hurdle for the Pro-Life policy to overcome. Now, the Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 7 by Rep. Jeff Leach, sponsored by Sen. Bryan Hughes) will head toward the House floor to be passed by all the representatives.
Officials have days left to pass the Pro-Life measure and send it to the governor’s desk to be signed into law.
Abortion businesses are abandoning brick-and-mortar facilities, shifting their tactics online and underground. Activists ship lethal pills into Texas illegally from other states and countries—to the tune of at least 19,000 orders of abortion drugs each year. The Pro-Life movement must be equally bold and creative to stop them.
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Just 72 hours before the vote, representatives faced huge pressure to gut the bill. Texas Right to Life negotiated with officials and stakeholders every day to keep this policy strong, and rallied friends at the Capitol to garner support for the bill. The measure passed the committee by an 8-4 vote.
Since Texas legislators returned to the Capitol in January, Texas Right to Life has pushed the Woman and Child Protection Act as the Pro-Life movement’s top priority, along with 129 other conservative leaders.
If passed, the groundbreaking bill would:
- Allow Texans to shut down companies that sell abortion pills;
- Let women who are harmed by illegal abortions sue pill traffickers; and
- Help Pro-Lifers stop abortionists who are hiding in liberal states.
The Woman and Child Protection Act is proactive. A preborn baby does not have to die first for a lawsuit to be brought. A person must simply have evidence that deadly pills were ordered, mailed, or manufactured for non-medical emergency reasons in Texas. The pregnant mother would not be penalized, but businesses and activists who supply the drugs would risk $100,000 fines.
Texas Right to Life worked with the committee members to craft amendments improving language to protect the privacy of the pregnant mother and requiring some of the funds awarded to citizens in a lawsuit to be donated to charity, preventing people with bad intentions from misusing the policy.
The measure builds on the historic Texas Heartbeat Act. While current Texas law defends preborn children from abortion, existing measures aren’t enough to stop new tactics of activists in other states and countries from shipping pills here.
Pro-Life leaders and lawmakers need only look to the success of the Texas Heartbeat Act to see how this new bill will stop abortions and withstand court challenges, as the 2021 law is still saving lives today.
The stakes are high. If the Texas House delays, abortion traffickers will continue to hurt mothers and kill babies. Now is our chance to shape history.
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