Abortions in Texas are at nearly zero, according to new data from the state.
The Health and Human Services Commission report shows abortions “have consistently dropped from thousands per month to zero,” according to an analysis by Texas Alliance for Life.
The report covers “the first 21 months following the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade in the Dobbs case – from July 2022 through March 2024.”
Texas is considered a “most restrictive” state by the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute. “Abortion is completely banned with limited exceptions,” the think tank reported. The Human Life Protection Act prohibits abortion except when there is “a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function of the pregnant female.”
“Additionally, during this period, doctors reported performing 102 medically necessary abortions, with five reported in March, all in hospitals,” Texas Alliance for Life reported.
However, there is no such thing as a “medically necessary” abortion, according to medical experts.
“The narrative that pro-life laws will prevent treatment of life-threatening complications affecting pregnant women, requiring them to travel out of state to access necessary medical care is blatantly false,” Dr. Ingrid Skop, an OB/GYN, previously testified to the U.S. Senate. She is a member of Texas’ Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee.
She also testified:
My peers and I know what these conditions are [that lead to a dangerous medical situation], even if we cannot predict with certainty whether that complication will cause a woman to die or experience severe impairment, or how quickly this harm may occur. Once I have made that determination, I am willing to induce labor to protect my maternal patient, even if I can predict her child may not survive. All laws allow intervention at the time of diagnosis of these serious conditions.
Every abortion is a tragedy in that it kills an innocent preborn baby. Still, the news of zero reported elective abortions is a positive step against the backdrop of other states moving to legalize abortion through all nine months.