For the first time since 1994, Texas turned blue. Tuesday’s losses threaten our ability to pass laws that save babies from abortion.

From a political standpoint, this is terrible news. However, we know the fight to protect the lives of babies, their mothers, and hospital patients is much more than a political issue. As Christians, we have been called to defend every single human being because they all have been made in God’s image. While this election dramatically changed our political landscape, our calling from the Lord is always the same.

Here’s where we are:

❌ James Talarico won the U.S. Senate seat.

Talarico wooed Texas voters by pretending to be moderate. He lied about his record, and Texans bought it. He:

• Claimed that God gave Mary an opportunity to abort Jesus;
• Asked Joe Biden to turn federal lands into abortion clinics;
• Tried to put abortion in the state Constitution;
• Refused to vote to require medical care for babies who are born alive after abortions;
• Voted to keep tax-funded abortions; and
• Voted against $287 million that would help pregnant moms.

But the losses in the Texas government are even more concerning.

The governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general determine whether Pro-Life laws are passed, signed, and then defended in court.

Here’s what these results mean:

❌ Gina Hinojosa will veto Pro-Life laws as governor.

A pro-abortion governor could veto new Pro-Life bills that we pass. That means the flood of illegal abortion pills will continue or even get worse in Texas.

She could also fill state agencies with pro-abortion staff so Pro-Life charities don’t get funding to help pregnant women.

Hinojosa has a terrible record on Life. She opposed $267 million in state funding to help pregnant women, voted to keep tax-funded abortions, and refused to vote for a bill requiring medical care for babies who survive abortions.

❌ Vikki Goodwin will block Pro-Life laws as lieutenant governor.

The lieutenant governor leads the Texas Senate and can heavily influence which bills move forward.

With Goodwin in this position, passing new policies against illegal abortion pills will become much harder.

Goodwin has already shown where she stands. She tried to put “personal reproductive autonomy” in the Texas Constitution to legalize all abortions, voted to keep tax-funded abortions, and opposed an amendment protecting hospital patients from being forced off life-sustaining treatment.

❌ Nathan Johnson will let criminals run rampant as attorney general.

The attorney general is Texas’ top lawyer. This office is responsible for defending our laws when abortion activists challenge them in court. He is also supposed to go after criminals in other states when they illegally ship abortion pills here.

However, Johnson’s far-left views mean that he will drop Texas’ existing legal cases that try to stop abortions. Further, he won’t defend our Pro-Life laws if abortion activists challenge them in court.

In the past, Johnson tried to repeal Texas’ Pro-Life laws, including protections for children after birth. He voted against protecting babies who survive abortions, opposed efforts to stop tax-funded abortions, and voted against a bill helping parents whose unborn babies are diagnosed with serious illnesses.

What happens next?

Democrats also won control of the Texas House of Representatives in the state legislature. However, Republicans still have the majority in the Texas State Senate. That means we can stop liberals’ radical policies from passing if the GOP sticks together.

In 2027, Texas Right to Life will have to work overtime in the Capitol to stop Democrats from legalizing abortion again. However, we may still be able to work toward bipartisan policies to improve adoption and protect hospital patients from being forced off of life-sustaining treatment.

Tuesday’s results also mean that we must look beyond Austin, too.

President Trump can take action right now to stop the flood of illegal abortion pills coming into our country. He does not need Congress to save babies from abortion by using an existing federal law that bans abortion pills in the mail.

This election also reveals a much bigger problem.

We have a lot of work to do to change hearts and minds, especially in our churches. We must help our neighbors understand that abortion ends the life of an innocent child.

We cannot simply focus on elections and expect our culture to change. We must make the case for Life in our churches, our communities, and our everyday conversations.

The election may have changed who holds power in Texas, but it has not changed our mission.

At Texas Right to Life, we will not back down. We are honored to be in this ministry alongside you where we will continue to save lives and redeem our culture.

Thank you for standing with us. We need you now more than ever.

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Texas’ Pro-Life laws protect both mothers and their unborn children. They do not prevent doctors from providing life-saving care to pregnant women, including treatment for serious conditions such as preeclampsia.

Sadly, the tragic death of Tierra Walker is being used to spread the opposite message.

Tierra, a San Antonio mother, tragically died in December 2024 after being diagnosed with preeclampsia at 20 weeks pregnant. Her family has since filed a lawsuit alleging that Texas’ Pro-Life policies prevented her doctors from providing an abortion that could have saved her life.

However, that claim misrepresents both Texas law and the medical care Tierra Walker needed.

Texas law specifically allows a physician to perform an abortion when, using reasonable medical 

judgment, a life-threatening condition that places the mother at risk of death or serious impairment of a major bodily function.

Texas law also makes clear that physicians are not required to delay or withhold medical treatment when doing so would increase the risk of the mother’s death or serious bodily harm. 

Texas Right to Life led in the passage of a new law in 2025, the Life of the Mother Act (Senate Bill 31 by Senator Bryan Hughes), to ensure doctors and hospital attorneys actually knew and followed the law. 

The Texas Medical Board has accordingly come out with guidelines affirming this. 

Treating a life-threatening pregnancy complication is not the same thing as intentionally killing a baby in the womb.

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Texas law defines abortion based on intent. An abortion is an act performed with the intent to cause the death of an unborn child. Medical treatment intended to save the mother, such as treating preeclampsia or delivering a baby early when necessary to protect the mother’s life, is fundamentally different.

In Tierra Walker’s case, the lawsuit itself states that her doctors recognized she was at risk of death. Yet she was discharged from the hospital and died just three days later. The standard treatment for severe preeclampsia can include hospitalization and delivery when necessary to protect the mother.

Tierra deserved better medical care. Her heartbreaking death should prompt serious questions about why the warning signs of a life-threatening condition were not appropriately treated, and an investigation and potentially even a medical malpractice case should be brought on her behalf against her medical providers. 

But the law, which saves thousands of Texas lives annually, is not to blame for the doctors failing to properly treat Tierra. 

Moreover, blaming Pro-Life laws for Tierra’s death creates a dangerous misunderstanding of the law that could actually lead to even more doctors being confused and mistreating other women in crisis.

Texas protects mothers by ensuring they can receive necessary medical treatment while also protecting their babies from intentional killing.

Women should not be sent home when they need critical life-saving care. AND we should not promote expanding the killing of Texas babies with the removal of Pro-Life laws, which already allow this crucial treatment for mothers. 

Life-saving care and abortion are not the same. Texas law recognizes that difference, and doctors should too.

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A video circulating online appears to show a mother taking abortion pills after learning she was expecting a little girl instead of a boy.

In the video, Dee Drac reacts to the gender reveal by stomping her foot and saying, “I don’t want no ladybug. I wanted a junebug.”

Someone then hands her a Coca-Cola and yells, “Wash it down real good!”

As she sings “Jesus,” she pulls pills from a manilla bag. After taking them, she exclaims, “Woo! That’s the best gift, that’s the gender! No gender!”

Then someone yells, “We got one, try to kill it!” as the crowd cheers.

Let that sink in. A baby’s life is being treated like a disappointment that can simply be erased.

A child’s worth does not depend on whether the baby is a boy or a girl. Every child is made in the image of God and deserves the chance to live.

Psalm 139:13-14 reminds us that God forms us in the womb and that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made.”

A little girl is not less valuable because her parents wanted a boy. She is not a mistake. She is a human being.

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And this video raises serious questions about a culture that increasingly presents abortion as an acceptable response to an unwanted pregnancy, even when the reason is disappointment over a baby’s gender.

Some women on TikTok have also shared stories of choosing abortion after learning their baby’s gender was not what they hoped for. Even admitting to booking secret abortions and telling their husband they had a miscarriage. 

While these accounts do not tell us how common sex-selective abortion is, they reveal a heartbreaking attitude: that a child’s life can depend on whether the parents get what they want.

Women facing unexpected pregnancies deserve compassion and support. But real compassion does not mean pretending abortion is harmless or celebrating the end of an innocent life.

As Christians, we are called to defend those who cannot defend themselves. Proverbs 31:8 says, “Open your mouth for the mute.”

That includes babies in the womb who have no voice of their own.

Abortion is not a gift. A child is not disposable. And no baby should lose her life simply because someone wanted a boy instead.

We must reject a culture that tells women abortion is the answer and instead build one that protects both mothers and their children.

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It is especially heartbreaking knowing that Texas has a Baby Moses Law, which allows parents to safely surrender a baby under 60 days old to a staff member at a designated location, such as an open hospital, fire station, or EMS station, without fear of punishment for abandonment. There is never an excuse for a child to be killed instead of given a shot at Life.

A 23-year-old woman and her 26-year-old boyfriend have been charged in connection with the death of their newborn baby, who was found in a dumpster outside a Fort Worth motel. A woman dumpster diving discovered the baby inside a bag and alerted authorities. The infant was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead. The mother faces a capital murder charge, while her boyfriend has been charged with abuse of a corpse.

This was not the first time this has happened. At the same time the police received this call, they were also responding to a call from Cantrell’s sister-in-law for a welfare check because Cantrell was pregnant and due soon. Her sister-in-law said that Cantrell had a mysterious history with her pregnancies.

An officer then made contact with Cantrell, who was living at the motel, and said that she “seemed nervous when speaking with him.” The officer also said that Cantrell denied being pregnant. However, she soon admitted the horrifying truth.

Avia Cantrell told police that she gave birth to a little girl at 7:00 a.m. on October 14. As soon as she delivered, she admitted to leaving the baby “face down in the water approximately 30 minutes before moving the child,” the affidavit said.

She confessed that her daughter’s feet had turned white and so she had assumed her baby was dead. She then wrapped the child inside a bag, which matched the bag the baby was later discovered in, and left the baby next to the toilet for four days. She immediately called her boyfriend, Camron Baker, to tell him what happened. 

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According to the affidavit, Baker allegedly discarded the remains of a previous baby following a miscarriage. This time, he is accused of throwing his full-term newborn child into a dumpster. Baker reportedly admitted to his actions and told police he did not call 911 because they “didn’t want to catch a case.” He also claimed Cantrell told him to put the baby’s body in the dumpster because “she couldn’t do it.”

This is heartbreaking. Texas has resources available to help parents who feel unable to care for their newborn. There is no excuse for a child to be abandoned and left to die like this. 

Texas has a Baby Moses Law, which allows a parent to safely surrender a newborn, up to 60 days old, at a designated location such as an open hospital, fire station, or emergency medical services (EMS) station. They will not be in any legal trouble and will be free to go, knowing their child will be safe and loved.

Pregnancy resource centers are also available to help mothers and fathers navigate an unexpected pregnancy. Whether they need help preparing to parent or want to explore adoption, there are pregnancy centers, maternity homes, nonprofit organizations, and adoption agencies ready to offer support and treat them with dignity and compassion.

It is difficult to imagine the fear and emotional turmoil this mother may have been experiencing. If she and her boyfriend had been living in a motel for two years, the thought of bringing another baby into an already difficult situation may have felt overwhelming.

But a difficult situation does not have to end in tragedy. Murder is never the answer. There were people and resources ready to help this mother and her baby. No child should lose their life because their parents feel they have nowhere else to turn.

Please join us in prayer that Cantrell and Baker have a radical encounter with God and repent for the murder of their precious baby girl. Please pray for mothers and fathers all over Texas to choose Life for their children, even when the situation can seem hopeless, scary, and uncertain.

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For too long, the abortion industry has operated under the false pretense that men can have no voice in the killing of babies in the womb. They have relied on the dismissive, anti-Life slogan, “no uterus, no opinion,” to silence men and shield their deadly business from scrutiny. But a new wave of courage is rising from Australia’s construction sites, workshops, and mechanic shops, proving that protecting babies is a duty for every man of conscience.

What began as a simple community outreach has exploded into a global movement known as “Tradies for Babies.” This grassroots organization of carpenters, electricians, plumbers, and mechanics is stepping into the gap to defend the most vulnerable among us: the babies being killed in the womb.

“When men have a mission or something that they could conquer, that is really when men come alive. We need purpose as men to thrive. So I think because abortion is the greatest human rights violation that we have at the moment in the world, going on globally. 73 million people tied to abortion last year. I think that’s when men found that we were creating this movement; they just jumped on it because we need that purpose. They wanted to use their masculinity to protect those that were more vulnerable than themselves.” Shawn Freeborn, director of Tradies for Babies, shared.

Founded by Dr. Joanna Howe and led by Director Shaun Freeborn, the movement was ignited by a moment of profound clarity. During a gathering in South Australia, a tradesman—his hands roughened by years of manual labor—spoke a truth that many have been too afraid to utter: “They don’t know anything about all these babies being killed. Nobody knows about it.”

That realization has since spread like wildfire. Within a year, “Tradies for Babies” has amassed over 80,000 followers and millions of views online. These are not career activists or professional politicians; these are men who build our homes and keep our country running, now choosing to build a culture that honors Life.

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For many in this movement, the fight is deeply personal. Shaun and his wife, Simone, carry a sorrow that no amount of time can erase. Early in their relationship, they succumbed to the lies of the abortion industry, believing it would be a “quick fix” for a crisis. They lost their daughter, Evangeline.

“We thought the abortion would be a quick fix,” Freeborn admitted. “It wasn’t.”

The grief of an empty chair at the family table is a heavy burden, but the Freeborns have chosen to turn that heartbreak into a holy mission. They recognize that every child is fearfully and wonderfully made by God (Psalm 139:14), and every life lost to abortion is a tragedy that leaves a permanent scar on the soul of a family and a nation.

Shaun admitted on the podcast that he knows now if he had firmly pushed against the abortion of their daughter and said he would step up and provide for their family, they would have never gone through with the procedure. He knows how vital a man’s voice is in this movement, and how it can make or break a Life-or-death decision.

“Tradies for Babies” is fighting a two-front war: one in the courts to change laws that permit the killing of children, and one in the hearts of the people to change our broken culture. But they are also fighting on the ground. Recognizing that mothers in crisis often face overwhelming practical hurdles, the movement is building a network of Pro-Life tradesmen who can provide real, tangible help—from fixing a leaky pipe to ensuring a home is safe and habitable.

They also want to fundraise for land and build housing for pregnant women facing financial or housing struggles.

These courageous men are proving that a culture of Life is not just about slogans; it is about showing women that they are not alone and that their children are worth fighting for. They are offering a beautiful, life-affirming alternative to the violence of abortion.

As the movement grows, its goal remains uncompromising: to end abortion entirely. While the abortion industry continues to lobby for more access to deadly drugs and more ways to kill babies, these men are standing firm, declaring that the dignity of a human being does not depend on convenience or zip code.

We must join them in this fight. The darkness of the abortion industry is vast, but it cannot withstand the light of truth and the strength of a community united in love for babies in the womb.

Will you stand with the men who are building a foundation for Life? Pray for the mothers and fathers, support the pregnancy centers, and speak boldly for those who cannot speak for themselves. The battle for Life is won when we refuse to stay silent.

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The three-minute video, All Is Beauty, was released by Quebec-based retailer Simons the day after 37-year-old Jennyfer Hatch died through Canada’s medical assistance in dying (MAID) program.

Jennyfer Hatch had a condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndrome that affected her body and caused chronic pain. To cope with this illness, she chose assisted suicide.

The video shows moments from her final month as she reflects on life, death, nature, and relationships. Simons described the project as a celebration of her life meant to inspire viewers.

But one of Hatch’s friends said she loved life and, in an ideal world, would still be here today.

If she loved life, why are we celebrating her death instead of asking how we could have better supported her?

Hatch’s suffering was real. Chronic pain and serious illness can make life incredibly difficult. Of course, we have compassion for those who experience these illnesses.

But compassion should never mean accepting death as the answer to suffering.

We should be asking whether those with serious diagnoses have access to medical care, pain relief, disability support, and people who will stand beside them through their hardest days.

A person’s life does not lose its value because they are sick, disabled, or in pain.

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People like Jennyfer, who are suffering, need to know they are not a burden and that their lives are still worth protecting, even when healing is not possible.

Simons presented the video as a story of life and inspiration, saying it was not meant as a statement about assisted suicide itself. Yet it follows Hatch through her final days as she prepares to end her life.

Presenting medical assistance in dying as beautiful and empowering risks making death seem like a reasonable answer to illness and suffering. It also takes attention away from a more important question: Are we doing enough to help people live?

The Pro-Life movement believes every human life has value, regardless of age, ability, or medical condition. That means responding to suffering with appropriate medical care, pain relief, practical help, and companionship.

Protecting life does not mean ignoring pain. It means making sure people receive the care and support they need instead of being led to believe that death is their best option.

Jennyfer Hatch’s life mattered, and her suffering mattered, too. We can recognize both without celebrating her death.

Every person deserves compassion and support throughout their life. Canada should be working to make life more livable for those who are suffering, not making assisted suicide look beautiful.

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