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By Jeff Bradford, John McNamara, The Federalist, Oct. 04, 2023

Jeff Bradford is the President of Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life and pro-woman organizations in the U.S. John McNamara is the outgoing Executive Director of the Texas Pregnancy Care Network, a statewide network of pregnancy support centers, maternity residences, social service agencies, and adoption agencies.

 

By establishing both a law that protected precious lives and a strong material safety net for vulnerable women, Texas became a leader in responding to the needs of women post-Dobbs.

Two years ago, Texas shocked the world.

The Heartbeat Act went into effect in September 2021, prohibiting abortions after the detection of a child’s heartbeat, typically around six weeks of pregnancy. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, a state could protect preborn children in the first trimester.

It was a worthy precursor to the cultural earthquake that followed nine months later, when Dobbs forever changed the abortion landscape of the United States. …

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