Governor Greg Abbott said that the state will « eliminate all rapists from the streets of Texas by aggressively going out and arresting them. »
Texas Governor Greg Abbott defended his state’s strict new abortion law, saying that it doesn’t force victims of rape and incest to carry babies to term because it « provides at least 6 weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion. » At the signing for a on Tuesday, a reporter asked Abbott why he would « force » a rape or incest victim to carry a pregnancy stemming from sexual assault to term. The new abortion , which went into effect last week, outlaws abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected — as early as 6 weeks into pregnancy and well before many women even know they are pregnant. The governor responded that the bill « doesn’t require that at all because, obviously, it provides at least 6 weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.
