Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed a law, ending abortion in the state of Texas if the Supreme Court decides to reverse Roe v. Wade

Plano, TX – The “Human Life Protection Act of 2021,” which is a “trigger bill” while ban abortions in Texas if one of the three circumstances below takes place:

• The issuance of a United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision overruling, wholly or partly, Roe v. Wade, as modified by Planned Parenthood v. Casey, thereby allowing the states of the United States to prohibit abortion;
• The issuance of any other United States Supreme Court judgment in a decision that recognizes, wholly or partly, the authority of the states to prohibit abortion;
• Adoption of an amendment to the United States Constitution that, wholly or partly, restores to the states the authority to prohibit abortion.

The legislation also recognizes that following Roe v. Wade — the 1973 case in which the Supreme Court claimed that abortion is protected under the Fourteenth Amendment — Texas never reversed statutes “that prohibit and criminalize abortion unless the mother ’s life is in danger.”

At the bill signing, Abbott asserted Texas’ desire to foster a culture of life through the legislation.

“The most precious freedom of all is life itself,” Abbott stated. “Our Creator endowed us with the right to life, and yet millions of children lose their lives every year before they’re even born. I’m signing a law today that will save babies from the ravages of abortion.”

State Rep. Bryan Slaton (R-TX) however, in a statement to the Daily Wire, stated that the bill unfortunately won’t save all babies from murder.

“The truth is, the likelihood of the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade is slim to none, which means the trigger bill will not actually save any human lives,” he said. “In order to end the outright murder of innocent children, States must be willing to stand up and ban it with or without the Court’s permission.”

Slaton filed the “Abolition of Abortion through Equal Protection for All Unborn Children Act” on July 8 to invoke Texan state sovereignty to immediately ban abortion. He told The Daily Wire that he was “saddened” by Abbott’s lack of support for his legislation.

Citing the Texas Constitution — which provides that “Texas is a free and independent State, subject only to the Constitution of the United States” — Slaton’s bill acknowledges “the sanctity of innocent human life created in the image of God, which should be equally protected from fertilization to natural death.”

The legislation would therefore “ensure the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all unborn children from the moment of fertilization” and “rescind all licenses to kill unborn children,” among other provisions.