Texas Abortions Drop to 0, Saving Up to 5,700 Babies Per Month

Abortions in Texas plummeted in August 2022, according to new data released by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. The report shows 0 legal elective abortions committed and 3 medically necessary abortions legally performed to save the life of the mother. A year ago in the same month, there were 5,706 lives taken by elective abortion.

Texas law allows abortion when the life of a mother is jeopardized by her pregnancy:

“Medical emergency” means a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that, as certified by a physician, places the woman in danger of death or a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless an abortion is performed.

This risk of death must be foreseeable but does not have to be imminent in order for this exception to apply.

Advancements in medical technology have greatly reduced the situations where both mother and child are at risk, but in rare and heartbreaking circumstances, a woman’s pregnancy can endanger her life. The death of the child is an indirect result of a life-saving intervention for the mother. Texas Right to Life mourns the loss of the three children who tragically could not be saved last year but we are grateful the doctors rightly protected the mothers rather than losing both precious lives…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)