A few short years ago, Texas broke new ground as a frontrunner in state efforts to curtail abortion, namely with the novel civil enforcement abortion law passed in 2021. This pro-life legislation empowered those harmed by abortion to act against the profiteers who pushed abortion on them, regardless of the human cost in lost preborn babies’ lives and the harm to their mothers. That same history-making approach to protecting LIFE emerged from Texas again, through the newly passed Women & Child Protection Act, which adds accountability and a cost to profiteering pill pushers.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has put a price tag on breaking Texas pro-life laws, putting the Chemical Abortion Pill industry on notice – if you break the law in Texas by peddling deadly drugs, this first-in-the-nation approach will allow for lawsuits with awards of up to $100,000. Other states need to consider this innovative approach as well.
The people who most love Chemical Abortion Pill trafficking are sex abusers, human traffickers, bad partners, and the Abortion Pill Cartel, which is why the Women & Child Protection Act became a must-pass bill. The way these pills are being sold violates Texas law, kills babies, hurts women, creates abortion water pollution and makes all the wrong people happy.
And protecting preborn babies and their mothers is important to the Lone Star State.
Earlier this year, Texas voted to celebrate “the miracle of life and the women at the center of that miracle” in the Senate Concurrent Resolution 19 with the placement of the Texas Life Monument, a sculpture by artist Timothy Schmalz depicting a mother with her preborn child cradled in a world-shaped womb, at the state capitol complex. However, the real threat to innocent children in the womb today comes from Chemical Abortion Pills, which are still being shipped into Texas in violation of state laws.
It’s been a tough fight. The Anti-Chemical Abortion Pill Trafficking Bill stalled close to the finish line after passing through the Texas State Senate, coming to an abrupt halt in the Texas House State Affairs Committee. It got stuck again in a special session, but the third time was a charm.
Students for Life Action (SFLAction) testified, lobbied, and rallied support for this innovative approach that has the potential to save more than 13,000 babies' lives annually, and it would also protect mothers, as the risks of these pills are well known.
According to a new study from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), titled “The Abortion Pill Harms Women,” more than 1 in 10 women will “experience at least one serious adverse event” because of Chemical Abortion Pills. And as SFLAction noted when testifying on the bill, it addresses the environmental hazards of chemically tainted blood, placenta tissue, and human remains flushed into Texas’s waterways.
Men, women, and preborn children need the progesterone that can be blocked by the remains of Chemical Abortion Pills in abortion water pollution. Students for Life of America (SFLA) has documented in citizen petitions to the FDA that regulations to protect endangered species and the Clean Water Act have been ignored as well, in an effort to fast-track the deadly drugs.
Today, Chemical Abortion Pill pushers from New York, Illinois, California, and abroad knowingly violate Texas laws meant to protect the vulnerable. The reckless current model hands power to sex abusers, enabling them to slip deadly pills to women without their knowledge or consent.
SFLAction and Texas Right to Life (TRTL) called for this second chance at LIFE for the Women and Child Protection Act in the Texas special sessions, as the next fight to save preborn babies comes from addressing the covert operation of Chemical Abortion Pill pushing, which is quickly organizing into its own virtual cartel.
A Louisiana brother’s love for his sister in Texas illustrates this problem.
Louisiana state Sen. Thomas Pressly championed an anti-coercion and controlled substances bill after his sister’s estranged husband in Texas slipped Chemical Abortion Pills to her without her knowledge or consent. Catherine Pressly Herring’s husband eventually received jail time.
Abusers and bullies love the easy Online, No-Test distribution of Chemical Abortion Pills. They have had a deadly ally in the quiet syndicate that sends death-by-mail into Texas, despite some truly heroic and creative laws that stand for life.
Women and children in the Lone Star State needed the Women and Child Protection Act to save thousands of lives, to stop sex predators in their tracks, and to send a clear message that Texas will not be a safe haven for Chemical Abortion Pill traffickers. Those who break our laws will face penalties because we are serious about our love for both mother and child, born and preborn.
And the sad reality of the deadly Chemical Abortion Pill pushing cartel is this: They make a sale expecting that someone will always die.
Kristan Hawkins is the President of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, with more than 1,570 groups on middle and high school, college and university, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states, including 108 in Texas.
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