{"id":332096,"date":"2025-05-30T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=332096"},"modified":"2025-05-29T14:36:47","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T19:36:47","slug":"bill-to-keep-mail-order-abortion-pills-out-of-texas-dies-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bill-to-keep-mail-order-abortion-pills-out-of-texas-dies-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill to keep mail-order abortion pills out of Texas dies in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last month, the Texas Senate passed a bill<\/a> intended to stop the deluge of illegal abortion pills being mailed into the state \u2014 yet the Texas House has failed to pass it, meaning countless women and preborn children could remain at risk.<\/p>\n

KEY TAKEAWAYS:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • The Texas Senate easily passed the Women and Child Protection Act to prevent abortion drugs from being mailed into the state.<\/li>\n
  • The bill stalled in the Texas House, where it missed the deadline to come to a full vote.<\/li>\n
  • Although it could be revived by Gov. Abbott in a special session, Texas Right to Life president John Seago says that is unlikely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    THE DETAILS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    SB2880<\/a>\/HB5510<\/a>, known as the “Women and Child Protection Act,” would have expanded the 2021 Texas Heartbeat Act<\/a>, which allows individual citizens to file lawsuits against anyone who commits an abortion after a preborn child’s heartbeat can be detected, typically at around six weeks, although the heart first begins to beat at about 21 days post-fertilization.<\/p>\n

    Despite the law, New York abortionist Margaret Carpenter was caught shipping abortion pills to women in Texas in December, and she was fined $100,000<\/a>. Another three people have been arrested<\/a> for committing illegal abortions and running a network of illegal abortion businesses in the Northwest Houston area.<\/p>\n

    The Women and Child Protection Act would have worked to halt the drugs from being mailed into the state, allowing lawsuits to be filed against people who did so.<\/p>\n