A new report is proving that the Lone Star State’s pro-life laws are working, with elective abortions dropping to “zero.” According to the Texas Alliance for Life and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, there have been less than 70 elective abortions in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and absolutely none over the course of the past two years. The Texas Alliance for Life observed that “for the first 21 months following the United States Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade … reported elective abortions in Texas have consistently dropped from thousands per month to zero.”
In the months preceding the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision, elective abortions in Texas exceeded 2,000 per month. January 2022 saw 2,531 elective abortions, February saw 2,513, March and April each saw over 3,000, and May and June each saw in excess of 2,500. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling at the end of June, elective abortions dropped off steeply — to only 67 in July of 2022. Beginning in August of 2022, as Texas’s “Human Life Protection Act” went into effect, absolutely zero elective abortions have been reported.