Another round of midterm elections means another effort to turn Texas blue. Meanwhile, Texas roots itself deeper into pro-life legislation.
After every Senate Democrat and all but one House Democrat voted to block the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Act this past January, that impression cemented itself. Still, left-wing mega-donor George Soros has renewed Texas, one of the most demonstrably pro-life states in the country, for support from his Texas Majority PAC through a new initiative, “Blue Texas.”
The goal is the same one Soros has pursued for the past couple of years: Flood enough money into Texas to dominate its seats in Congress. This time, as with the Democratic Party at large, his funds are also oriented toward 2028.
Of course, Soros’s PAC would need to look local, too. One reason Texas is so reliably red is its state-level politicians who pass successful abortion laws. Currently, the state holds that abortion is illegal in all cases (except, unfortunately, before an indication of cardiac activity), with no exceptions for rape or incest. And this year, Texas has passed five pro-life laws, ranging from the Stop Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Travel Act to a bill on adoption education in high schools. The state legislature also clarifies, in the Life of the Mother Act, when doctors can intervene — usually by early delivery — and sets rules to promote pregnancy center funding and other pro-life resources for parents.
The above laws set an enduring post-Roe precedent for Texas’s intended political direction. The harder Democrats lean into abortion “rights,” the more difficult it will be for them to escape the issue. It’s beneficial for pro-lifers.
Yet Democrats are succeeding on some cultural fronts, even if losing electorally. Abortion pill favorability is now at a high, especially after a few years of explicit deceit about its safety. Despite findings that the rate of adverse events is 22 times higher than the Food and Drug Administration admits, no restrictions have been enacted. The same Texas legislature that passed several other anti-abortion laws failed to pass the Woman and Child Protection Act, which aimed at “allowing Texans to sue abortion pill manufacturers and distributors” and “empowering the attorney general to prosecute abortion pill traffickers directly.”
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Even with significant Republican majorities in the Texas House, the issue of the abortion pill remains somewhat of a taboo. As with the Born-Alive Act, which would have protected abortion-surviving infants from neglect on the operating table, a common narrative of extremism prohibits Texas’s abortion pill restriction.
So Texas remains deep red, and Soros’s money is, on many levels, a waste. But the meaning of “red” still sees constant redefinition itself, based on whatever Democrats claim as redundant, performative, and needless.
This article was originally published at www.washingtonexaminer.com
