4,500 babies saved from abortion in Texas - Don't Mess with Texas Babies!

[Christians4LessGvt]

4,500 babies saved from abortion in Texas after state defunds Planned Parenthood

August 26, 2015

Since the passage of a Texas bill revoking taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood, over 4,500 babies have been saved from abortion.  In 2011, then Governor Rick Perry defunded Planned Parenthood of $34 million or more by signing into law SB 7. That year, the state reported 72,470 induced abortions; in 2013, there were 63,849 reported abortions.

The number is down more than 13,000 from 2010, and pro-lifers are attributing the drop to state pro-life laws and the defunding of the abortion giant.

Texas Right to Life Communications Director Melissa Conway told LifeSiteNews that she believes we are witnessing "the full impact of pro-life laws in Texas. The number of abortions has declined as life-saving legislation goes into effect."

Prior to 2013, the last year for which statistics are available, the Texas Legislature approved a law that required abortionists to perform an ultrasound for women seeking abortions. The woman can choose to either see the image or hear the heartbeat of her child, and must also be given an explanation of the sonogram 24 hours or more before the abortion occurs, providing her time to learn the facts about fetal development and reconsider.

In 2013, Texas passed a law requiring abortionists to obtain admitting privileges at local hospitals, which resulted in fewer abortionists who could legally provide abortion. In another pro-life win, Texas lawmakers cut off funding for Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers and redirected that taxpayer money to organizations which help low income women with medical care, although the abortion giant still receives a small amount of funding from some state groups.

Texas also requires parental consent before an abortion on a minor.

Each of these pro-life victories has played a part in the steady decline of abortion in Texas, and in 2015, Texas passed additional pro-life laws to help reduce that number even further as more mothers choose life. These new laws include requiring physicians to provide pro-life educational materials to parents of pre-born children diagnosed with Down syndrome.  In addition, a new law expands on the parental consent law, limiting judicial bypass ? the ability of judges to authorize abortions for minors without parental knowledge.

Over 17,000 babies have been saved from abortion since 2008. That year, 81,591 induced abortions were reported to DSHS; in 2013, 63,849 were reported.

http://liveactionnews.org/4500-babies-saved-abortion-texas-defunds-planned-parenthood/

[Plane]

  So abortion becomes both more safe and more rare.

   Who can object?

[kimba1]

But this only stops abortion not the cause. Meaning the demand has not really stopped. Just pointing out this is not the end of the story.

[Xavier_Onassis]

Women's rights are being violated.

Poor women's rights. More prosperous ones can afford the trip to Albuquerque.

You ForcedBirthers are pathetic fanatics.

[Plane]

But this only stops abortion not the cause. Meaning the demand has not really stopped. Just pointing out this is not the end of the story.

   Less abortion is a good thing by itself.

    It is like the Sumatran Rhinoceros, it is being poached in part because it is surrounded by very poor people who need the cash from poaching.

     Less poaching would be good news even if there weren't also less poverty.

    Does having half so much abortion really cause a lot of new problems?

      I hope that the problems that abortions solve can be solved in other ways , less deadly ways .

[kimba1]

Im not for or against per se but recently the polarization of the issue made this topic very repulsive to me. Ex late term abortion.

Im just pointing out possibly that since the demand did not stop other issue may arise. It takes decades to see if less abortions cause more crime. Im more concerned with how will the babies be taken care of now.

Is Texas openings orphanages now?

[kimba1]

Forgot to say for the past few year thiers been a dramatic drop in teen pregnancy and the main cause is those cable teen mom shows. Just saying that their may of been better ways to do this

[Plane]

Forgot to say for the past few year thiers been a dramatic drop in teen pregnancy and the main cause is those cable teen mom shows. Just saying that their may of been better ways to do this

Indeed.

It is even possible that part of this reduction is a reduction in demand .

[Xavier_Onassis]

The most probable reason there are fewer teen pregnancies is the morning after pill which the same crew of Forcedbirther idiots also opposed.
The eventual goal that these Forcedbirthers want is the banning oc contraceptives.They want God to force women to stop having sex pout of marriage. They long fpor those days in the Fifties when even condoms were banned.

[Plane]

  Why are you telling us what we want?
   And being so inventive!

  It isn't even possible that we abhor the killing?

[Xavier_Onassis]

You just want to use the government to inflict your opinions on others.

You don't get to a smaller government doing shit like this.

[Plane]

  I will have to admit the inconsistency.
  I do like the idea of a government able to prevent murder, as much as is practical and possible.

[Xavier_Onassis]

It is not murder, because a fetus is not a human being.  That is why we have a different word for it.

[sirs]

Yea....that's why they called slaves, slaves, and not man or woman, because otherwise a sense of the person being demeaned might reach a level of humanity

[Xavier_Onassis]

Lame, very lame.