Texas AG Ken Paxton Will Vigorously Enforce Abortion Ban: I Will Do Everything to Protect Unborn Children

Thanks to the Supreme Court making its Dobbs decision official this week, a Texas trigger law that fully bans abortions will go into effect August 25th. That will protect all babies from abortions and only allow abortions in very limited instances.

And when the pro-life law goes into effect, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he will vigorously enforce the law to ensure women and unborn babies are protected from abortions.

Paxton issued an advisory Wednesday saying he will enforce the ban, known as the Texas’s Human Life Protection Act, which makes killing an unborn child a felony.

“Texas law in a post-Roe world has already been written. Now that the Supreme Court has finally overturned Roe, I will do everything in my power to protect mothers, families and unborn children, and to uphold the state laws duly enacted by the Texas Legislature,” Paxton said in the advisory.

“We stand ready to assist any local prosecutor who pursues criminal charges,” Paxton added.

Although Texas has a heartbeat law in force and a pre-Roe abortion law in place as well, the pro-life trigger law, that Governor Greg Abbott signed in 2021, is expected to take precedence and it will increase penalties for abortionists who kill unborn babies. Exceptions would be allowed for risks to the mother’s life or a “substantial impairment of major bodily function.” Abortionists who violate the measure could face fines or prison time…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)