Ep. 428 This Bill Will Save Lives: Faithful Support for the Life of the Mother Act

Texas Impact's Weekly Witness

The Texas Impact team just worked with some incredible faith partners on the Family Matters: Faith Days at the Texas Capitol event. About 300 Texans of Faith gathered at the Texas Capitol and across the street at First United Methodist Church of Austin for three days of education, advocacy and activism.

We had legislative visits to Capitol offices, singing in the rotunda, great panel discussions, a rally on the steps of the Capitol, and—the part that got the most attention in the media, a press conference dubbed "Texas Women of Faith Support the Life of the Mother Act Press Conference."

At the press conference, Bee highlighted the postcard many of you… along with 6,000 other Texans of faith have signed calling for the Texas Legislature to “fix the abortion ban.” A room full of Texas women faith leaders spoke in favor of the bill, and the author of the House version of the bill, HB 44, the "Life of the Mother Bill" Rep. Charlie Geren spoke saying that in his 24 years, this is the most important bill he has ever carried.

You can watch that entire press conference on Texas Impact’s LegeTV channel on YouTube.

So, this week we are going to talk about all of that with one of the Texas faith leaders who spoke at the press conference, Rev. Jessica Cain of Living Word Lutheran Church in Buda and Texas Impact Policy Advocate working on reproductive health issues, Rev. Kyle Riley.