Texas has become the strongest state in America to crack down on mail-order abortion pills.
Governor Abbott stood with Pro-Life Texans on Wednesday, September 17, by signing the Woman and Child Protection Act. Although he might hold a symbolic signing ceremony to celebrate this victory, the law will still take effect on December 4. This policy will allow citizens to sue abortion pill companies and activists who illegally kill preborn babies, even if they’re hiding in other states.
The Woman and Child Protection Act (HB 7 by Representative Jeff Leach, sponsored by Senator Bryan Hughes) is a major step forward in stopping dangerous mail-order abortions. Every year, more than 19,000 abortion pills are shipped into Texas illegally. While this law will help save countless babies, the fight isn’t over—more than a million children are lost to abortion in America each year, most through pills. Texas is showing the nation what it looks like to protect moms and their babies from this tragedy.
Now it’s time for the Trump Administration to act. President Trump can follow Texas’ lead by enforcing the Comstock Act—a long-standing law that bans sending abortion drugs and other obscene materials through the mail. If enforced, this law would immediately block abortion pills nationwide, even in Democrat-run states. All President Trump has to do is uphold it.
Chemical abortions are the greatest threat to preborn babies today. Abortion groups are abandoning in-person facilities and moving online. Activists defy state law and send deadly pills from other states and countries–trafficking over 19,000 orders into Texas per year. These drugs are often used when the baby is under 10 weeks old. At this stage, the child already has unique DNA, a heartbeat, brain waves, tiny hands and feet, and every major organ system in place.
The Woman and Child Protection Act is the best way to save these little babies.
Texas Right to Life President Dr. John Seago celebrated:
“Texas Right to Life has worked with lawmakers since November to create the most effective Pro-Life defense against out-of-state companies and activists that send abortion pills to Texas. This trend is killing tens of thousands of babies a year and harming their mothers, but today, our law became a blueprint for the rest of the country.”
This policy will:
- Allow Texans to shut down companies that illegally sell abortion pills;
- Let women who are harmed by abortions sue pill traffickers; and
- Help Pro-Lifers stop abortion activists who are hiding in liberal states.
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Pregnant women are not penalized under this measure. Instead, the Woman and Child Protection Act targets abortion pills at the source: businesses and activists who profit from women’s fear. Lawbreakers would face fines up to $100,000 per violation. Mothers who suffer from an illegal abortion may even bring lawsuits against those who enabled it. The bill would also keep women’s identities confidential in public court documents to protect their privacy.
However, Texas Right to Life’s goal is that no lawsuits are ever needed—because no preborn babies should be killed. Laws exist to deter certain actions from happening in the first place, not just to punish criminals after they occur.
Hospitals and doctors will still have access to important medications. The bill includes three black-and-white provisions protecting the manufacturing, delivery, and administration of medication used to treat ectopic pregnancies, miscarriages, and women in life-threatening medical emergencies. It also allows these drugs to be used for the limited other legitimate medical uses that don’t involve intentionally ending a baby’s life.
Chemical abortions involve two drugs: mifepristone, which starves the child to death, and misoprostol, which expels the baby’s body. These drugs not only end preborn lives but also harm women—1 in 10 mothers require emergency care. Traffickers and abusers use abortion pills to conceal crimes, exploit women, and even poison them without their knowledge.
With the passage of the Woman and Child Protection Act, Texas took a bold stand to protect mothers, save children, and dismantle the abortion industry’s criminal network.
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