What’s at Stake

The 2026 Republican Party of Texas State Convention is fast approaching, and a proven, compassionate pro-life platform is under attack, not from the left but from within our own ranks.

A small vocal group has pushed “Equal Protection” language into the RPT platform. While it may sound pro-life, it is not. In practice, this language would subject vulnerable women to life in prison or even the death penalty. Some proponents have openly stated  that if that is where the law leads, “so be it.”

This is not the compassionate, results-driven pro-life approach that has successfully protected life in Texas. Texas women and babies deserve better.

The Record Speaks for Itself

For 38 years, Texas Alliance for Life has done the hard, incremental work of protecting life through peaceful, legal, and effective means. The results are clear:

• We have helped pass 60+ pro-life laws in Texas since 1988.
• Legal abortions are required to be tracked in our state through the Health and Human Services Induced Termination of Pregnancy Report. Those numbers show that legal abortions have dropped from 53,000 per year pre-Dobbs to zero legal abortions in Texas today, with the exception of interventions tracked in the report performed to save the life or health of a mother, thanks to the Human Life Protection Act.
• All abortion providers have ceased performing abortions in Texas.
• We secured $200 million in state funding through the Thriving Texas Families Program for pregnancy centers, maternity homes, and adoption agencies.
• We passed HB 7, creating stronger enforcement tools against illegal abortion providers and chemical abortion drug traffickers. 

• HB 1280 — Human Life Protection Act: Bradley Pierce and Jacob Miller signed in against this bill in the House Public Health Committee. [View witness list]
• SB 8 — Texas Heartbeat Act: Bradley Pierce, Jon Speed, and Thomas Wesley signed in against this bill in the Senate State Affairs Committee. [View witness list]
• HB 7 — Mail-Order Abortion Drug Accountability Act: Brent Money and David Lowe voted “Present Not Voting,” widely viewed in the Texas House as opposition. [View House Journal]

All hat, no cattle.

What We’re Fighting For

Texas Alliance for Life is urging delegates to adopt the following Comprehensive Compassionate Pro-Life Policy

The Republican Party of Texas affirms a compassionate pro-life approach that protects both mothers and unborn babies:

• Advancing strong enforcement against illegal abortion providers and traffickers of chemical abortion drugs
• Opposing criminal penalties for women who seek or obtain abortions;
• Supporting increased funding for pregnancy centers, adoption services, maternal health programs, and post-abortion healing; and
• Promoting education that affirms the dignity of every innocent human life from conception.

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This language protects babies, supports women in crisis, and keeps the pro-life movement effective and compassionate. 

Why Equal Protection Language Harms the Pro-Life Cause

Pregnancy Resource Centers (PRC) across Texas report that abortion-minded women are walking through their doors, handing over the abortion pills, and choosing life. Women who have taken the first abortion pill are reaching out for reversal — and babies are being saved. 

Under this “Equal Protection” approach, this progress stops. 

A frightened young woman holding an abortion pill will no longer walk into a PRC — she’s too afraid of being prosecuted. A woman who regrets her decision halfway through a chemical abortion doesn’t pick up the phone — she’s too afraid of being charged. A woman struggling after an abortion will stay silent instead of healing and stay broken. 

“Equal Protection” does not end abortion. It ends the lifelines that are saving babies right now. It ends the progress we have made. 

Texas Alliance for Life believes every frightened woman deserves a helping hand – not handcuffs.  That is the compassionate, effective path to protecting more babies and supporting their mothers. 

Resources to Learn More: 

• TAL Executive Director Amy O’Donnell on where the pro-life movement stands four years post-Dobbs and why Equal Protection is not the answer in Are We There Yet. 
• Scott Klussendorf’s Analysis in The Gospel Coalition, Why Equal Protection Bills Harm Pro-Life Efforts]
• Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s statement on punishing women
• Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins and Christian apologist Jojo Ruba discuss why abolitionist attacks on pro-life leaders are harming the movement.

Our Full 2026 Pro-Life Resolutions

• Resolution on Compassionate Protection of Innocent Human Life
• Resolution on Enforcing the Comstock Act – to stop illegal trafficking of chemical abortion drugs into Texas by mail or delivery service
• Resolution To AMEND the 2024 RPT Platform Plank #97: Education on Humanity and Dignity of the Preborn Child – Texas students should learn about the humanity of the preborn child, including life-affirming definitions of life and the study of life, the concept that life begins at fertilization
• Resolution to Replace the 2024 RPT Platform with a NEW Plank #195, to Support Thriving Texas Families
• Resolution Calling for IVF Reporting Requirements and Embryo Protections – In vitro fertilization (IVF) creates human embryos that deserve protection as unborn children.

Take Action

The State Convention is June 8-13 in Houston. Here is how you can help:

Download and review all resolution language before you arrive. Share this page with fellow delegates in your Senate District. Contact us with questions at Info@TexasAllianceforLife.org. Show up ready to testify and vote for compassionate, proven pro-life language.

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While others focus on rhetoric, Texas Alliance for Life remains focused on advancing policies that protect women and save lives. Pro-woman. Pro-baby. Pro-results. That is the Texas Alliance for Life record.