Abortions in Texas are down by almost 9,000 since 2014 in the Lone Star State. Texas legislators and pro-life activists are saying that this is “something to celebrate.”
In 2014, state estimates reveal that 54,191 abortions were performed. In 2013, that number was at 63, 168, reported the Texas Tribune this week. A reported 681 women in the state obtained abortions out of the state of Texas.
“First off, this news is something to celebrate. Almost 9,000 fewer Texans were victimized by the injustice of elective abortion in 2014 than in 2013,” John Seago, the legislative director of Texas Right to Life told Breitbart Texas.
Seago added, “The decrease in abortions seen in the 2014 statistics continues a trend in Texas that has been occurring for two decades. The new data shows a dramatic drop that can most likely be contributed to the efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the Sonogram Law, as well as the Preborn Pain section of House Bill 2 in 2015 that was never challenged in court.”
The legislative director of the pro-life advocacy group said that the annual number of elective abortions have been continually dropping in Texas even in the long periods when the Legislature failed to pass any significant pro-Life legislation. He said that this is because advancement in science and technology continue to show the humanity of the preborn child with sonogram machines. He says that it is also due to new findings in embryology like the medical consensus that preborn children have the capacity to feel pain at least by twenty weeks.
In 2014, state estimates reveal that 54,191 abortions were performed. In 2013, that number was at 63, 168, reported the Texas Tribune this week. A reported 681 women in the state obtained abortions out of the state of Texas.
“First off, this news is something to celebrate. Almost 9,000 fewer Texans were victimized by the injustice of elective abortion in 2014 than in 2013,” John Seago, the legislative director of Texas Right to Life told Breitbart Texas.
Seago added, “The decrease in abortions seen in the 2014 statistics continues a trend in Texas that has been occurring for two decades. The new data shows a dramatic drop that can most likely be contributed to the efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, the Sonogram Law, as well as the Preborn Pain section of House Bill 2 in 2015 that was never challenged in court.”
The legislative director of the pro-life advocacy group said that the annual number of elective abortions have been continually dropping in Texas even in the long periods when the Legislature failed to pass any significant pro-Life legislation. He said that this is because advancement in science and technology continue to show the humanity of the preborn child with sonogram machines. He says that it is also due to new findings in embryology like the medical consensus that preborn children have the capacity to feel pain at least by twenty weeks.
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