Texas Passes Bill Targeting Makers of Abortion Inducing Drugs
What a difference an election makes. Since Trump took office, pro-life advocates should be pleased because federal and red states are working to curb the rampant abortion push of the previous administrations. Recent policy changes are saving children from abortion.
Texas is one of the states working diligently to save human life through regulations and restrictions. It already has a 2021 law, commonly known as the heartbeat law. The law prohibits any abortion after six weeks, and if a woman still wants an abortion, she would have to travel to another state for the procedure.
Texas’s limits on abortion are working well. Still, the abortion industry began to exploit the loophole in the law by increasing access to pharmaceuticals aimed at killing the fetus with a pill. Nothing prohibited this practice in the State of Texas until now.
We reported earlier that a plaintiff from Texas is suing a California doctor for prescribing abortion inducing drugs that killed his newborn baby. Yesterday, the state Senate just passed a bill, cracking down on the use of abortion causing drugs in their state. Like the heartbeat law, any citizen could sue the manufacturer or provider of such drugs. Lt. Dan Patrick commented, “Protecting life is a priority of the Texas Senate and mine and we passed SB 6 today to ensure that abortion-inducing drugs are not distributed in Texas for the purpose of obtaining an illegal abortion.”
Along with certain states enacting laws to protect the unborn, the Big Beautiful federal bill will also significantly impact the defense of human life. Included in the new law is the defunding of Planned Parenthood. According to Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 report, the organization received 40% of its annual income from taxpayers’ funds. During the same time, the abortion giant reported performing 402,230 abortions. That is almost half a million human beings killed in one year.
Stripping Planned Parenthood of federal funds has an enormous effect on the organization’s ability to do what they do best. It is reported that 33 clinics nationwide have announced they will close their doors because of the defunding. As recently as July 1, 2025 (before the bill was passed), Planned Parenthood claimed the cuts would cause it to close over 200 clinics in 24 states.
Pro-life advocates are happy to see these clinics closing. Still, they are quick to point out that the old method of physical dismemberment and evacuation of the child from the womb is being replaced by the telemedicine approach, appearing to be the new battle for the pro-life warriors. Regardless, the closing of the clinic will have an impact on the telemedicine industry as well. Abortion through pills accounts for two-thirds of abortions in states without bans in 2023.
This is why what happened yesterday in Texas is so important. Other states must follow Texas’s lead and prohibit abortion-inducing drugs in their states. Telemedicine is the new front of the fight against abortion, and pro-lifers must adapt and defend against it with strategies of their own, much like what Texas is doing.
For the first time in a long time, there is great hope that life is winning again. We pray the trend continues and that more citizens embrace it instead of willingly wanting to kill it. The tide is changing.