The Texas Anti Abortion Bill Reduced Abortions Only Ten Percent


The first statistics on the number of abortions in Texas and in neighboring states have been gathered. The number of abortions in Texas has dropped, not by dramatic levels but only by some. The drop has been about 10%. An anti-abortion official claims to be pleased by that number. He said anti-abortion operatives knew most women would find ways to get the abortions they needed. 

We have to remember women in the state are still adjusting to the new law. There are women who did not know how to reach out of state abortion sites. Other women did not know how to obtain abortion medicines. As one observer mentioned, the number of women who find ways to obtain abortions will increase as street level information on obtaining abortions grows. The 10% reduction will be hard to maintain. 

The anti-abortion official who was not surprised at the small effect the law has revealed what I have written here often. The law was meant, not to stop abortions, but to harass women. Proponents are now getting satisfaction from making women jump through more hoops, spend more money, take more time off work and spend time making arrangements for their present children. We must remember the majority of women who receive abortions already have children. They are not "anti-children." They are not, in general, living the sinful high life partying about and getting pregnant because of it. I would speculate the same percentage of women who give birth might be called living the party life. In either case it is no one's business but that of the women. 

The number of surgical and medicine abortions continues to fall as birth control medicines become better and more available. Thus, we would expect some fall in abortions in Texas and everywhere else. When the number of abortions done in the states near Texas are tallied, we can expect a rise while those in Texas falls. The rise may not exactly offset the fall in Texas because of better birth control. 

There are now more judges on the Supreme Court who appear to favor reversing Roe. I wonder what they expect to accomplish by doing this. I suppose they might think they are doing something noble for "state's rights" by giving whacko legislators and governors the power to limit abortion in some states. But, if abortions are done anyway is this some great accomplishment? Is it following "what God wants to happen with abortions?" 

The Bible neither condemns abortion nor praises officials who harass women.

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