Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he plans to sign the Texas Heartbeat Act, which bans abortion after six weeks.
The bill states basic biology: “pregnancy begins with fertilization” and “occurs when the woman is carrying the developing human offspring.” The authors said pregnancy is also determined by the date of a female’s last period.
However, not every woman has a perfect 28-day cycle. I have a friend who did natural family planning, kept a chart of her cycle, and calculated her due date as November 25. The doctor went by the date of her last period and wrote the due date as November 10 or sometime around there. I wonder how Texas will deal with those situations.
(By the way, the six-week ultrasound proved my friend correct! Charting is awesome. She was able to tell which date she conceived her child, too. Pregnancy is a miracle!)
Anyway!
Also from the bill:
Sec. 171.202. LEGISLATIVE FINDINGS. The legislature finds, according to contemporary medical research, that:(1) fetal heartbeat has become a key medical predictor that an unborn child will reach live birth;(2) cardiac activity begins at a biologically identifiable moment in time, normally when the fetal heart is formed in the gestational sac;
The gestational sac is the “structure compromising the extraembryonic membranes that envelop the unborn child and that is typically visible by ultrasound after the fourth week of pregnancy.” It is not the placenta.
The law forbids a physician from knowingly performing or inducing “an abortion or a pregnant woman.”
The physician can perform or induce an abortion if “the physician has determined, in accordance with this section, whether the woman’s unborn child has a detectable fetal heartbeat.”
So the abortion can only happen in a medical emergency. Rape and incest do not count. The person who impregnated the woman “through rape or incest could not sue.”
The Texas Heartbeat Act allows private citizens to “bring a civil action against any person who”:
(1) performs or induces an abortion in violation of this chapter;(2) knowingly engages in conduct that aids or abets the performance or inducement of an abortion, including paying for or reimbursing the costs of an abortion through insurance or otherwise, if the abortion is performed or induced in violation of this chapter, regardless of whether the person knew or should have known that the abortion would be performed or induced in violation of this chapter.
The person cannot “have a connection to an abortion provider or a person seeking an abortion.”
The pro-infanticide groups and people hate the bill. fOlLoW tHe ScIeNcE!!
Weird how they never want to follow the science when it comes to murdering unborn human beings. It’s so gross.
The people of Lubbock, TX, voted for the Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance on May 1. It wants “to make it illegal to perform an abortion inside city limits.”
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