Rep. Brent Money Files Bill to Abolish Abortion for Texas Special Session
AUSTIN, TX — Texas State Rep. Brent Money on Tuesday filed House Bill 163, which would establish equal protection of the laws for every preborn baby in Texas and abolish abortion.
The announcement of House Bill 163 comes after Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for a special session of the Texas Legislature, in part to discuss “protecting unborn children and their mothers from the harm of abortion.” House Bill 163 is the only legislation filed that would accomplish this objective by making the murder of anyone made in the image of God illegal for everyone.
The current laws in Texas, including the Human Life Protection Act which went into effect three years ago, provide women with complete legal immunity to murder their preborn babies. This reality has allowed abortion-inducing drugs and other methods of self-induced abortion to expand in Texas. Others can also still legally pressure pregnant women into having abortions under current law.
Based on conservative estimates, and beyond a limited number of abortions in Texas hospitals, at least 59,800 other Texas preborn babies were murdered last year as allowed by Texas law, including over 28,200 women from Texas traveling out of state for abortions[1] and at least 31,500 babies murdered in Texas with abortion-inducing drugs.[2]
In the regular session, lawmakers had the chance to pass House Bill 2197, an identical bill that would have abolished abortion in Texas by providing equal protection to every preborn child. That legislation was opposed by Texas Alliance for Life, which successfully urged Texas State Rep. John Smithee to cancel a hearing for the legislation hours before the hearing was scheduled to start.
Unlike other proposals that fail to criminalize the act of abortion for all parties willfully involved, House Bill 163 presents another opportunity for Texas lawmakers to establish equal protection of the laws for every preborn child in Texas, while also protecting pregnant women from coercion.
NOTES:
Maddow-Zimet I, Philbin J, DoCampo I and Jones RK, Monthly Abortion Provision Study, updated June 24, 2025.
Society of Family Planning. #WeCount Report, April 2022 through December 2024. The telehealth numbers in this chart are adjusted down from #WeCount totals to account for studies that indicate only 88% of mail order abortion pills are actually taken to complete an abortion. See faa.life/sma for additional sources.