We look forward to doing even more in 2023!
This will be the first regular session of the Texas Legislature since Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court in Dobbs.
❌ The bad news is that abortion pills are being shipped across state lines to kill baby Texans while the Biden Administration promotes it and Texas law still allows women to use them to kill their babies.
The 2023 legislative session will be an EXTREMELY important time for finding out who is ready to completely abolish abortion in Texas without compromise…and who isn’t.
With the generous support of people like YOU who fund our work…
AATX is making plans to be there in Austin and around the state throughout this CRITICAL legislative session to advocate for equal protection for our most helpless neighbors: babies in the womb.
If we don’t speak up, who will?
- Drafting the 2023 Texas abolition bill (already well underway).
- Recruiting co-authors for the bill (requires potential meetings and travel).
- Launching and promoting a petition, supporting abolishing abortion in TX to amass support and bring awareness to abolition (requires a lot of marketing to bring it to the attention of the grassroots).
- Initiating our State of the State campaign to mobilize the grassroots to urge the governor to add abolishing abortion as a priority item for the legislative session (includes a petition drive, texts, calls, and mailers if we have funding).
- Hosting a rally at the capitol to support the bill (requires signage, t-shirts, sound system, livestream tech, and more if we have funding).
- Organizing Grassroots Lobby Day(s): Texans from across the state come to Austin and visit legislator’s offices (requires materials for activists to give to legislators and travel sponsorships if we have funding).
- Holding legislators accountable. For legislators who signed the AATX pledge but may fail to sign onto the bill, we must hold them accountable and inform their constituents (requires texts, calls, and mailers to their districts which are expensive but VERY effective).
- Putting pressure on the committee chair to give the bill a hearing and a vote (may mean testifying in committees, travel expenses, rallies in committee chair’s district, etc.—also expensive to do but VERY effective).
- Helping prepare those who will testify before committees to speak for abolition.
- If the bill does not get a hearing, put pressure on the chair by mobilizing our efforts in his/her district (may require expensive mailers, calls, organizing block walking, tech and materials to manage a grassroots campaign).
- Conducting legislative analysis on competing bills that legislators may try to pass instead of abolishing abortion to inform legislators on how these bills do or do not satisfy biblical and Constitutional requirements for equal protection (requires time and resources to contact legislators and put this information in their hands; possible in-person meetings).
A few years ago AATX set out to make abolishing abortion a central issue in political races in Texas.
And it’s working!
In 2022, Texas candidates have been talking about abolition and equal protection in races across the state. From races for House seats all the way to the Governor’s office, candidates are making statements about the abolition of abortion because voters want to know where they stand.
When Rep. Bryan Slaton publicly pledged to refile our bill to abolish abortion in Texas in the next session, the top three challenger candidates in the Governor’s race publicly pledged their support for the bill. 👏
This kind of progress didn’t happen by accident. It has taken a lot of hard work.
This means we could speak up by providing Texas voters with a voter guide letting them know which candidates:
✅ Supported the Party Platform, Principles, and Legislative Priorites of the Republican Party of Texas on abolishing abortion.
✅ Pledged to take a stand and sponsor legislation that would abolish abortion.
Though Klick is a decorated Pro-Life politician, as committee chair she killed our abolition bill last session so it never saw the light of day. 😲
We used our voice to make sure voters in her district knew what she did by sending ~8,000 mailers to her constituents as well as thousands of phone calls and emails into her district. The race was so close that the election went to a runoff, showing that abolition can’t be ignored any longer.👇
One of the MAJOR goals of AATX is to make the abolition of abortion a central issue in Texas politics. The race for the Republican nomination in HD 91 showed us that this isn’t just a lofty dream; it is becoming a reality in Texas.
Though Lowe narrowly missed winning the nomination, he made it clear to the Pro-Life establishment that there are MANY people in Texas who are fed up with playing political games with the lives of babies and want abortion abolished immediately.
This race was being watched across the state and the message it sends to Texas lawmakers is that if you kill a bill to abolish abortion like Stephanie Klick did with HB 3326, it will be VERY costly.
The 2022 RPT Convention in Houston was our best convention yet since we first advocated for abolition there back in 2016. We kept all the ground we’ve gained in the past plus we ADDED an equal protection plank and strengthened the RPT Legislative Priorities.
We had 50+ volunteers working hard to advocate for their preborn neighbors and they did an incredible job!
- They distributed over 7,000 of our Resolution pamphlets and over 3,000 equal protection postcards. 😮
- They collected over 1,400 petition signatures from delegates and stood to speak on behalf of equal protection before committees and during floor debate. 🙌
- We sent texts on equal protection to over 7,000 delegates who were in attendance. 📱
Many seeds were sown that will inevitably bear fruit far into the future.
AATX president Bradley Pierce and AATX board member J.R. Haas spoke for equal protection before the RPT Legislative Priorities Committee.
In 2023 Grassroots Efforts are CRITICAL to the Fight
In this post-Roe environment, we want Texas to be a LEADER in providing God-honoring, Constitutional equal protection to preborn babies.
State conventions and grassroots efforts like this one are essential to the fight to abolish abortion in a post-Roe environment.
AATX has been an uncompromising voice for equal protection even at the Supreme Court level.
Through the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, attorney and AATX president Bradley Pierce drafted and submitted the ONLY abolitionist legal brief submitted in the Dobbs v. Jackson case.
AATX signed on to this abolitionist legal brief along with 20 other organizations and 20 state legislators.
This historic legal brief argued that:
- The Court should do its duty before God and under the Constitution and overturn Roe.
- The 14th Amendment requires states to provide the equal protection of the laws to all people.
- Regardless of what the Court does, it is the DUTY of the states to abolish abortion and establish equal protection for ALL people, including those who are still in the womb.
✅ We are thankful to God that the Court DID heed our arguments and those of many others to overturn Roe, removing a perceived barrier to abolishing abortion.
❌ Unfortunately, though, the Supreme Court DID NOT uphold the preborn child’s Constitutional right to the equal protection of the laws.
This means there is a lot more work to be done.
Dobbs did not settle this issue. In fact, just recently the Supreme Court declined to even hear a case where equal protection for preborn babies was being argued (Jane Doe et al. v. McKee).
The state level activism of AATX is CRITICAL to the post-Roe fight to abolish abortion.
If babies are going to be equally protected by law, the states must stand up and do it. And Texas can and should be a leader for the nation in protecting babies no matter who is trying to kill them, how small they are, or how they were conceived.
This work is critical for keeping abolitionist activists informed and for GROWING the movement.
- U.S. Supreme Court: LIVE reporting from Washington D.C. during the oral arguments in the Dobbs case
- Louisiana state capitol: LIVE reporting from Baton Rouge during the historic House vote on Louisiana's HB 813.
- Republican Party of Texas state convention: LIVE recap and reporting on the progress of equal protection at the 2022 RPT convention in Houston.
- Roe v. Wade is overturned: LIVE interviews and reactions with leaders in the abolition movement across the country on the day the Dobbs decision was announced.
- Church Leaders Conference: LIVE broadcast of our speakers for the inaugural Foundation to Abolish Abortion Church Leaders Conference in Houston, Texas.
FAA Reported Live from the Supreme Court Steps during Oral Arguments in the Dobbs case.
When the Dobbs decision was announced, FAA broadcast livestream coverage with reactions from abolitionists around the country.
The success of efforts to abolish abortion in Texas depends heavily on the faithfulness of the Church.
It is the duty of the Church to practice love, mercy, and justice toward our preborn neighbors. This is why we invest heavily in equipping church leaders to lead their congregations in this battle.
In August of 2022, AATX helped sponsor the first Foundation to Abolish Abortion (FAA) Church Leaders Conference held in Houston, Texas.
This conference called upon pastors and other church leaders to use their God-given gifts of preaching, teaching, and leading with one unified, principled voice to abolish abortion for the glory of God.
Ten pastors and leaders who are seasoned in the fight to abolish abortion brought messages which are critical to preparing the Church for the post-Roe fight.
Broadcast for greater impact 📣
We livestreamed this conference to our AATX Facebook page and YouTube channel and then released the individual messages to YouTube after the conference in order to amplify the impact of the event and bring this timely teaching to many more people who need to hear it.
We need you to partner with us to ensure that the voice for equal protection is heard loud and clear in Texas. 📣
Now is not the time to lose the momentum we’ve built in 2022.
Remember, Roe is overturned but abortion is NOT YET abolished. Precious babies are still not equally protected by law.
Innocent children in Texas need us to speak up. Supporters like YOU amplify our voice and make sure we can be there to speak WHEN and WHERE it counts; in Austin and beyond.
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