You may have heard abortions have dropped to nearly zero in Texas, but it isn’t true.
Tens of thousands of babies are still being murdered each year right here in Texas because our laws allow it.
How is abortion still legal in Texas?
Pro-Life laws in Texas explicitly exempt mothers from any prosecution even for willfully performing their own abortion, which means self-induced abortion is legal for women in Texas.
A self-induced abortion is any abortion performed by the pregnant woman herself, with or without the formal oversight of a medical provider. Most often this is done by ordering abortion pills online and taking them at home.
What laws make it legal for women?
TEXAS HOMICIDE CODE
“This [homicide] chapter does not apply to the death of an unborn child if the conduct charged is… conduct committed by the mother of the unborn child.”—Tex. Penal Code § 19.06
TEXAS TRIGGER BILL
“[The Texas Human Life Protection Act] may not be construed to authorize the imposition of criminal, civil, or administrative liability or penalties on a pregnant female on whom an abortion is performed, induced, or attempted.”—Tex. Health & Safety Code § 170A.003
TEXAS HEARTBEAT ACT
“[The Texas Heartbeat Act] may not be construed to authorize the initiation of a cause of action against or the prosecution of a woman on whom an abortion is performed or induced or attempted to be performed or induced in violation of this subchapter.”—Tex. Health & Safety Code § 171.206(b)
Are women really aborting their babies in Texas?
YES. Conservative estimates indicate that in 2024 over 30,000 women murdered their babies by abortion on Texas soil using abortion pills sourced through telehealth providers located in other states.[1]
In addition to over 30,000 telehealth abortions being carried out inside Texas borders, over 28,000 Texas women traveled out of state to seek abortions in 2024.[2]
Remember this when you see headlines that say that Texas abortions are down to nearly zero and thousands of lives are being saved.
The truth is that overall abortion numbers of Texas babies have gone up since Roe v. Wade was overturned. More preborn Texans are being murdered each year now than were before the Texas Heartbeat Act went into effect.
What about coercion?
Most people don’t realize that laws that keep it legal for women to do self-induced abortions, may also make it legal to pressure or coerce women into abortions.[3]
That’s right. It’s not illegal to pressure someone to do something legal, unless you threaten them with violence.
So, while it’s currently illegal in Texas for a husband or boyfriend or anyone to pressure a woman to commit homicide and kill her toddler, it is not illegal to pressure her to kill her preborn child.
Texas babies need equal protection
In Texas, murdering anyone should be illegal for everyone, but it’s not.
Texas law essentially gives mothers the legal right to murder their own preborn children as long as they do it themselves. And tens of thousands of them are doing it.
The blood of those children is on our hands. Our laws protect the “right” of mothers to murder their own children, and God will hold us accountable for every day that we allow that to continue.
Abortion must be abolished in Texas which means we must provide the equal protection of the laws to preborn babies. The same laws that protect our lives as born people must be extended to protect the lives of our preborn neighbors as well.
NOTES:
- Society of Family Planning. #WeCount Report April 2022 through December 2024. 23 Jun. 2025, https://societyfp.org/wecount-report-9-december-2024-data/, https://doi.org/10.46621/725961gzsnai.
Our telehealth numbers above are adjusted down from #WeCount totals to account for studies that indicate only 88% of mail order abortion pills are actually taken to complete an abortion. See faa.life/sma for additional sources. - Maddow-Zimet I, Philbin J, DoCampo I and Jones RK, Monthly Abortion Provision Study, updated June 24, 2025, https://osf.io/k4x7t/
- Not including the use or threat of violence against the woman.