June 24, 2022
AUSTIN – Texas governor Greg Abbott announced an executive order that will require women to show a negative pregnancy test certificate in order to purchase wire coat hangers. “The United States Supreme Court has overturned Roe versus Wade allowing our reasonable laws to protect the sacred rights of the unborn child — only until the moment of birth — to stand,” he stated. “We must ensure that the gift of a pregnancy, given by God, must not be terminated in any way possible.”
Abbott’s executive order requires that a woman take a pregnancy test, which must be done in the presence of and, if negative, certified by at least one male doctor from each of five counties at least one hundred miles apart and at least one male priest of the Christian faith. The woman must then take the certificate to the Secretary of State’s office in Austin for signature verification which will take a minimum of 48 hours to be processed, after which time the woman must pick up the certificate at a special office in Dallas. Finally, the woman must watch a one-hour video explaining the advantages of plastic hangers and receive an additional hour of one-on-one in-person counseling at any “clinic” in Houston operated by a so-called pro-life organization.
“We are doing this to protect the health and safety of the mother and the unborn child,” added Abbott. “That is our only concern.”