July 2013, the Texas Senate passed the HB2 Bill, banning abortion at 20 weeks post-fertilization, and put heavier restrictions on abortion clinics, including admitting privileges requirements,  leaving many clinics to close their doors across the state. This also leaves hundreds of thousands of women without access to abortion. 

WE CALL UPON THE  TEXAS GOVERNMENT TO REPEAL THE HB2 BILL: The 20-week Abortion Ban: Originally to prevent the fetus from feeling pain. However, it is a scientific fact that a fetus cannot feel pain until 24 weeks.   Medication Abortion Restrictions and Telemedicine: Prohibits dispensing abortion-inducing drugs (mifepristone-misoprostol  regimen) by anyone other than a physician, and requires that the administration of the drugs follow FDA protocols as outlines on the final label of the abortion inducing drug. Requires the physician to schedule a follow-up appointment 14 days after the administration or use of the drug. The physician is required to make a reasonable effort to ensure that the woman returns for the follow-up visit and to document such efforts by including in the woman’s medical record the date, time, and name of the person making the effort. The TRAP Provisions:  -Physicians are required to have admitting privileges at a hospital that is located within 30 miles where the abortion was performed and that provides OB-GYN services. (Which Whole Woman's Health later challenged this provision in Whole Woman's Health v. Cole and in 2014, the federal district court ruled that the admitting privileges requirement as applied to the Whole Woman's Health clinic in McAllen and Reproductive Services in El Paso were likewise unconstitutional because they "create an impermissible obstacle as applied to all women seeking a previability abortion." ) -Physician Contact: Physicians are required to provide the pregnant woman with a phone number by which a physician or health-care professional employed by the abortion provider facility can be reached 24 hours a day for assistance with complications. -Ambulatory Surgical Center Requirement: Abortion facilities are required to meet minimum standards adopted for ambulatory surgical centers by September 2014. We believe that this bill is doing way more harm than good in protecting the lives and welfare of women living in Texas seeking an abortion. Much of the debate on abortion is all too often dictated by personal convictions and religious bias, instead of a woman's right to choose.