New data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission shows a 60 percent drop in abortions during S.B. 8’s first 30 days of enactment alone
Officials reported a 60 percent drop in abortions in Texas during the first month of the law being in effect. Photo: Stephen Spillman/AP It’s been five months since Texas effectively banned all abortions past six weeks, and so far the law appears to be doing exactly what its proponents hoped: slashing the number of procedures performed in the state. .
But first, Texas: Starting September 1, the state outlawed abortion at the first glimmer of fetal “cardiac activity” even when a pregnancy results from rape or incest. That deadline comes well before many people know they’re pregnant; it also violates the terms of Roe v. Wade, which prohibits states from restricting abortion before viability .
Against that backdrop, it probably isn’t surprising that state officials recorded 2,200 abortions in September versus 5,400 in August. In October, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin were already projecting a 50 percent drop for September 2021 compared with September 2020. And before the law took effect, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast predicted the law would stop between 85 and 90 percent of abortions in Texas. S.B.
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