1813. A New Report on the Texas Heartbeat Act – Dr. Michael New, 6/30/23
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| 0:00.0 | Registered today, the 2023 Lutherans for Life National Conference is October 11th through |
| 0:06.1 | the 13th at the Holiday Inn Cincinnati Airport in Erlonger Kentucky. The conference includes |
| 0:11.7 | visits to the Ark and Counter and Creation Museum. Online registration is open now with |
| 0:17.2 | early bird pricing at LutheransforLife.org slash conference. Lutherans for Life. Equipping |
| 0:23.3 | Lutherans and their neighbors to be gospel motivated voices for life. LutheransforLife.org. |
| 0:41.6 | The Texas Heartbeat Act has been controversial from its very beginning. It was |
| 0:48.4 | subject of legal dispute. It went into effect in September last year. Now the question is, |
| 0:55.7 | how effective has it been? Has it saved lives, unborn lives? Welcome back to issues, etc. I'm Todd |
| 1:03.4 | Wilken. Joining us to talk about a new study on the impact of the Texas Heartbeat Law, |
| 1:08.0 | Dr. Michael New visiting assistant professor of social research and political science at the |
| 1:12.8 | Catholic University of America, a senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozure Institute, |
| 1:18.0 | Paige Comstock Cunningham Fellow with Americans United for Life and a columnist for National |
| 1:22.8 | Review Online. Dr. New, welcome back. Thanks, Jeremy. Much appreciated. Give us a description. What |
| 1:28.3 | is the Texas Heartbeat Act? So the Texas Heartbeat Act was a law that took effect September 1st, |
| 1:34.8 | 2021. It was really the first time since the Roe v. Wade decision we were able to pass a law that |
| 1:40.9 | took effect that protected pre-born children after a certain gestational age. The Texas Heartbeat |
| 1:46.2 | Act protected the pre-born children in Texas after a fetal heartbeat could be detected, |
| 1:51.2 | which is usually around six weeks gestation. Again, the law took effect September 1st, 2021. |
| 1:58.2 | How have the abortion industry and the media been downplaying the effectiveness of this act? |
| 2:03.6 | What's interesting right after the Texas Heartbeat Act took effect, |
| 2:06.6 | number of abortions performed in Texas fell dramatically. We get good data from the state health |
| 2:12.2 | department in Texas, and we find, like, right away, a number of abortions performed in Texas fell |
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