Category: Texas Heartbeat Act

Texas Law Saved Nearly 10,000 Babies From Abortion Over 9-month Period, Study Shows

Nearly 10,000 additional babies were born in Texas over a nine-month period following the state’s ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The peer-reviewed analysis, published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, evaluated the number of live births versus the expected…


Former State Sen. Wendy Davis Files Lawsuit Against Texas Abortion Law

Former Texas state Senator Wendy Davis has filed a federal lawsuit against the Texas abortion law, which bans abortion at six weeks, arguing that it is “blatantly unconstitutional.” “S.B. 8 seeks not only to strip Texans of their fundamental right to make decisions about their pregnancies, based on their individual circumstances and religious beliefs, but…