Tomorrow marks the first day of the 87th Texas Legislature!
Your state lawmakers in Austin will discuss many important issues, and what could be more important than defending LIFE?
Pro-Life advocates demand HUGE wins in Texas to protect preborn children and vulnerable patients. Thanks to your financial support, we’re sending five full-time lobbyists to the Capitol to advocate for life-saving legislation. But the most effective voice is YOURS!
Tell your state lawmakers to prioritize LIFE this session.
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The two most important Pro-Life bills this session will be:
1. The Texas Abolition Strategy (TAS)
The Texas Abolition Strategy combines three major policies into one Pro-Life omnibus bill to end elective abortion in Texas:
a. Preborn NonDiscrimination Act (PreNDA): Abolish discriminatory abortions motivated by the sex, ethnicity, or disability of the child and the remaining late-term abortions.
b. Heartbeat: Abolish elective abortions after 12 weeks when the preborn child’s heartbeat is detectable by the most common methods.
c. Abolition: Abolish every remaining elective abortion in Texas.
Each of these policies is a key step in the overall strategy to ending abortion. Texas Right to Life fully supports each of these policies individually and believes packaging them within one bold bill with different effective dates is the best approach.
2. Repeal Anti-Life “10-Day Rule”
This bill repeals the anti-Life “10-Day Rule” in the Texas Advance Directives Act that allows physicians to deny patients basic life-sustaining treatment after a rubber stamp of approval from a hospital committee. After the 10-day countdown, the physician and hospital have complete criminal, civil, and administrative immunity to hasten the patient’s death. This bill balances the recommendation of the physician with the patient’s Right to Life by continuing life-sustaining treatment until the patient can be transferred to a more appropriate care setting or to another physician.
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Friend, establishment politicians want to ignore Pro-Life issues. They’ve grown callous to the cries of preborn children and vulnerable patients and plummeted Texas to the 20th most Pro-Life state.
When all of us speak up, they can’t ignore us! Your calls and emails really do make a difference. Friend, YOU are the only pathway for guaranteeing Pro-Life wins this session. Without your voice, Texas will have to wait until the next session in 2023 to pass life-saving laws. Failure is not an option.
The nation depends on Texas to lead the way to ending abortion and euthanasia. We have a Republican governor, Republican majorities in the state House and Senate, a strong Circuit Court of Appeals, and a Supreme Court of the United States that will allow Texas to protect Life significantly. Politicians have no excuse if they fail to make 2021 a landmark year for preborn Texans by passing each Pro-Life Priority Bill.
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The full Pro-Life agenda may be found here.
Thank you for defending Life!
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