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* * * LEGISLATIVE ALERT 02/18/2025 * * *

Urge Your State Senator & Representative to Oppose Any Bills to Weaken Texas’ Pro-Life Laws by Adding Exceptions for Rape or Fatal Illness

The Texas Legislature is meeting at the Capitol in Austin. Please immediately urge your Texas state senator and your state representative to oppose any bill to allow abortions on unborn babies who have been conceived in rape or who have fatal diagnoses.

Pro-abortion members of the legislature have introduced several bills to allow abortions in those cases. We need to stop those bills.

 

SAMPLE MESSAGES — Use your own words.

EMAIL — Click here to find your Texas State Senator and Send an Email

Hello, my name is (name). I live at (address). Please ask (add the Senator or Representative name) to oppose any bills that weaken the laws that protect unborn babies from abortion, including when the unborn child was conceived in rape or when the unborn child is terminally ill. Thank you.

The Honorable (Senators or Representative Name)
Texas State Senate (Add District #)

Dear (Senator or Representative Name)
I urge you to oppose any bills that weaken the laws that protect unborn babies from abortion, including when unborn child was conceived in rape, when the unborn child is terminally ill.

Thank you.

Your name & address

PHONE — Call their office.

Hello, my name is (name). I live at (address). Please ask (add the Senator or Representative name) to oppose any bills that weaken the laws that protect unborn babies from abortion, including when the unborn child was conceived in rape or when the unborn child is terminally ill. Thank you.

Let us know that you have made your contacts.

Send an email with any comments to info@texasallianceforlife.org.

Background

  • Among Texas Alliance for Life’s top legislative priories is to prevent any weakening of the Human Life Protection Act (HLPA), the landmark law that completely protects unborn babies from abortion beginning at conception. The HLPA has a narrow medical necessity exception to allow abortions in rare and tragic cases to save the mother’s life or major bodily function.
  • Doctors may and are performing abortions in those rare cases. Doctors have reported performing abortions under the medical necessity exception 135 times, an average of five per month. No doctor has been prosecuted, sued, or sanctioned for any of those abortions. No woman has lost her life for lack of an exception in the law. Here is our latest news release on those reports.
  • The Texas Supreme Court has upheld the Human Life Protection Act as constitutional and clear for doctors to understand the exception to allow abortions to save women’s lives.
  • However, pro-abortion members of the Legislature want to change that. Fifteen bills to expand that exception have been introduced. They seek to allow abortions in a variety of ways, including when the baby has a fatal diagnosis, when the pregnancy resulted from rape or incest, and for minor girls without parental consent.These are the bills: HB 257 & HB 395 by Rep. Donna Howard; HB 965 by Rep. Cassandra Garcia Hernandez; HB 1219 & HB 1220, & HB 2651 by Rep. Mihaela Plesa; HB 1254 by Rep. Trey Martinez Fisher; HB 1578 by Rep. Penny Morales Shaw; HB 1986 & HB 1987 by Rep. Rhetta Bowers; HB 2251 by Rep. Vikki Goodwin; SB 256 & SB 257 by Sen. Carol Alvarado; and SB 308 & SB 350 by Sen. Sarah Eckhardt.
  • Texas should not execute a baby for the crime of the father or when the baby is terminally ill.
  • Also, any attempts to change the HLPA will invite amendments to substantially weaken it, risking little or no protection for unborn babies.