Texas Abortions Drop to 0, Saving Up Thousands of Babies Per Month - LifeNews.com

report from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC), released January 2, 2025, confirms that Texas’s pro-life laws are achieving their intended goal: protecting both women’s and unborn babies’ lives. During the first 26 months since the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, Texas doctors have reported performing 132 medically necessary abortions to save women’s lives or health through August 2024 — an average of five per month — with elective abortions dropping to zero. No doctor has been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for any of those abortions. No woman has lost her life for lack of an exception in the law. “These numbers reaffirm that Texas’s pro-life laws are working as intended — safeguarding the lives of both women and unborn children,” stated Amy O’Donnell, Communications Director for Texas Alliance for Life. “Texas doctors can and are providing medically necessary abortions in rare and tragic cases when the mother’s life or health is at …