When Protection Means Prosecution
This week, Governor Greg Abbott called a 30-day special session. On the agenda: the Woman and Child Protection Act. Texas Right to Life celebrated the move as a step toward ending the “abortion pill crisis.” What they didn’t say out loud is what the bill is actually built to do.
Senate Bill 2880 would allow any Texan to sue someone who distributes abortion pills. It would let families sue for wrongful death if a woman is harmed. It would give the Attorney General power to prosecute cases even when local officials won’t. And while it promises not to punish the pregnant person, it criminalizes nearly everyone around her.
This isn’t about safety. It’s about control.
The goal is to isolate. Not just legally, but socially. If you make help dangerous, you make it rare. If you make support a liability, you make sure fewer people offer it. The state doesn’t need to arrest the person having the abortion. It only needs to convince her that no one can help without risking everything.
That’s the real design.
It sounds familiar because it is. In The Unborn Child Protection Act series, that same logic plays out at scale. Support becomes surveillance. Options become outcomes. Pregnancy becomes the state’s jurisdiction. That’s not fiction anymore. It’s strategy with a press release.
The language of this bill is calculated. “Protection” sounds soft, but it moves like a blade. It gives people the illusion of care while stripping them of choice. It tells women they’re not the target while building a system that corners them.
This isn’t about saving lives. It’s about weaponizing proximity. Pharmacists. Rideshare drivers. Friends. Anyone who helps. Anyone who doesn’t report. That’s the pressure point and they know it.
You can read the original statement here:
https://texasrighttolife.com/gov-abbo...
Or you can read the novel that shows where this path leads: The Unborn Child Protection Act series.
When protection means prosecution, the only safety left is silence.
And silence is never neutral.
