Data shows Texas doctors perform abortions to save life of the mother, despite claims from politicians, media

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Despite claims from politicians, the media and abortion activists that female health in Texas is at risk with pro-life laws on the books, new numbers released by the state show that doctors do intervene in cases when the life of the mother is at risk.

The latest data from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission on induced terminations of pregnancies (HHSC ITOP) shows that doctors in Texas performed 113 abortions to save pregnant women’s lives in the 22 months after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Texas has a pro-life law that went into effect shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, whichprevents elective abortions beginning at conception with an exception for medically necessary abortions when the pregnancy causes "a life-threatening physical condition aggravated by, caused by, or arising from a pregnancy that places the female at risk of death or poses a serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function unless the abortion is performed or induced." Additionally, every state in the country with a pro-life law includes an exception for the life of the mother.

Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign have previously claimed that doctors are hindered from performing abortions in the case of a pro-life law when the pregnancy puts a woman’s life at risk.

When the Texas Supreme Court ruled in May that