Fri Feb 11, 2022 – 5:20 pm EST
AUSTIN, Texas (LifeSiteNews) – Texas abortions plummeted by around 60 percent in the first month after the state’s groundbreaking six-week abortion ban went into effect last fall.
Data released Thursday by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission reported 2,197 abortions in September, after implementation of the Texas Heartbeat Act. The state reported 5,400 abortions in August.
Monthly abortions in Texas had not fallen below 4,200 last year until the law came into force. Additional data will be provided on a month-by-month basis, according to Texas officials.
The Texas Heartbeat Act, signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in May, bans abortion once a baby’s heartbeat becomes detectable, typically by around six weeks of pregnancy. The pro-life law is the strictest to take effect in the United States since Roe v. Wade and does not include exemptions for rape or incest.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly declined to strike down the heartbeat act, which empowers citizens rather than the state to sue anyone who “aids or abets” an abortion of a baby with a detectable heartbeat. A baby’s mother cannot be sued under the law.
A 5-4 majority of justices allowed
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