While most of us slept, Texas Senate Bill 8 went into law early Wednesday morning — legislation that protects innocent life from the point of a detectable heartbeat, or about 6 weeks gestation.
Abortion advocates had appealed to the Supreme Court to block the new law. As of this writing, though, the High Court has not acted on the motion.
I was in Texas this past Saturday night, hosting Focus on the Family’s See Life 2021 event in Dallas. There was tremendous energy and enthusiasm in the arena, a sense that the tide is finally turning on this half-century quest to protect every life under law.
The realities surrounding the barbaric practice of abortion are no longer hidden.
The unconscionable loss of over 62 million innocent lives since 1973 has scarred our culture in unfathomable ways.
For some time now, we’ve been saying that the facts are on the side of life. Technology is on the side of life. |