In Texas, pro-life legislation have saved the lives of numerous women and newborn babies in 2024, but the state’s efforts to shield both mothers and their children from the abortion industry are still under way.
The Texas Health and Human Services Commission ( HHSC ) updated the Induced Terminations of Pregnancy ( ITOP) report this week, citing the fact that last year, there were no elective abortions performed by physicians and hospitals in the Lone Star State.
Hundreds of pregnant women and their children have escaped the lethal damages that are caused by pregnancy since the Texas Heartbeat Act, which essentially prohibited ending the life of newborn babies beyond six weeks birth, came into effect in September 2021.
pregnancies in Texas dropped even higher when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022 and the country’s ban on ending living in the uterus unless a person’s life or one of her main bodily functions were in danger. Starting in 2023 and continuing into 2024, the purple condition went from recording hundreds of democratic abortions each quarter to receiving no reports of democratic abortions every year.
According to AmyO’Donnell, communications director for Texas Alliance for Life,” These statistics make it absolutely evident that Texas ‘ pro-life laws are protecting people and newborn babies in our state.” ” No doctor has been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for providing an abortion to save a woman’s life. Without a law-enforced exception, no woman has lost her life. Misinformation that suggests otherwise spreads unnecessary fear among pregnant women and misleads the public about what our laws actually say.
Texas still recorded 54 total abortions in 2024, all of which were carried out with the exceptions outlined in state statutes. That figure is lower than the 62 exceptions that were reported in 2023.
Approximately 42 of the 54 abortions recorded in 2024 were performed between 15 and 20 weeks, the gestational period in which most Americans believe abortion should be “generally illegal” . , The state also recorded one late-term abortion, which was used to end the life of a baby between 21 and 25 weeks gestation.
Eight of the 54 attempts to save an unborn child resulted in infants being born alive. Physicians in Lone Star State must observe the same level of care and vigilance as they would in a premature child when they are treated for a child who survived botched abortions under the laws of the state. Texas code also recognizes abortion survivors, no matter how small, have the same “rights, powers, and privileges” as “any other child born alive after the normal gestation period”.
The pro-abortion media and their allies in the Democrat party continue to claim that pro-life laws are to blame if something goes wrong while an abortion through all nine months through either drug or dismemberment is safe and good. The most recent Texas data does nothing but.
A large portion of the 2024 total abortions, nearly 63 percent, were induced via the abortion pill regimen known for causing life-threatening complications.
While none of the women who underwent any of the abortions, whether by drug or otherwise, passed away, many of them also experienced medical complications that ranged from severe blood loss to fetal dismemberment and the use of the abortion drug mifepristone.
The harms flagged to Texas HHS by physicians included but were not limited to 29 reports of hemorrhage, 37 reports of incomplete abortions, and 13 reports of infection across all 54 abortions. Complications reported by facilities, which often serve as duplicates of those reported by physicians, included 32 counts of hemorrhage, 42 incomplete abortions, and 15 counts of infection.
The fallout of home abortions carried out using mail-in abortion pills that were prescribed by telehealth professionals in other states is not accounted for by this already high percentage of complications. For Texas residents who traveled to blue states to get abortions, the physical and emotional costs are not included in the cost calculations.
The former approach is largely prohibited by Texas law, and some Texas counties ‘ ordinances also prohibit it. However, the practice continues indefinitely. The Republicans tasked with enforcing pro-life prohibitions on these deadly loopholes, however, are aware of them and are taking action.
In December, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor after prescribing an abortion pill to a woman in the Dallas area that caused her to lose her unborn child and take her to the hospital with potentially fatal complications.
In a statement released shortly after filing suit, Paxton stated that” we cherish the health and lives of Texas ‘ mothers and babies, and this is why out-of-state doctors may not unlawfully and dangerously prescribe abortion-inducing drugs to Texas residents.”
The Federalist staff writer and host of The Federalist Radio Hour, Jordan Boyd. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University with a political science major and a journalism minor. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.
