Some very good news for pro-life advocates is coming out of Texas where a judge has upheld HB2, the bill that requires abortionists to have admitting privileges at local hospitals and puts strict requirements on the use of RU486, the abortion drug. According to LifeNews:

“The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a ruling upholding the Texas law Wendy Davis opposed that was responsible for closing abortion clinics in the Lone Star State…Now, the appeals court has issued a positive ruling, according to Texas Right to Life:

“A panel of three judges in the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit released its ruling upholding HB2, Texas’ Pro-Life law, which took full effect in October of last year. The opinion affirms the constitutionality of the legislation passed last summer and rejects Planned Parenthood’s argument that HB2 places an “undue burden” upon abortionists, abortion facilities, and women seeking abortion.

“The court upheld sections of the law that require abortionists hold admitting privileges at a nearby hospital, and that the dangerous RU-486 abortion drug be administered according to FDA procedure.”

This is not only important for Texas and the lives that will be saved there, this is important for West Virginia as well.

Right now Gov. Tomblin is still waiting to sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act that passed in the state legislature earlier this month. The bill passed with an overwhelming bi-partisan majority that should have made it a no-brainer for the governor to sign. And yet he is waiting, and hedging, saying that he is concerned about the “constitutionality” of the bill.

Those concerns should have been relieved when the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian legal group, sent a letter to Gov. Tomblin assuring him of the constitutionality of the bill. Now that the Texas law, which is must more stringent in its legal scope than the West Virginia law, has been upheld yet again as constitutional, there is really no reason for Gov. Tomblin not to sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. That is, unless his claim to be pro-life is little more than a campaign slogan.

We should urge Gov. Tomblin to stand by his words and show Mountaineers that he is truly pro-life by signing this bill to protect the unborn. Not only is the bill constitutional, it is humane in protecting unborn children that can feel pain from being exposed to the torture of abortion.

If you want to share your thoughts with Gov. Tomblin you can click here to go to his website contact page.