We now mark the one-year anniversary since important new regulatory restrictions on abortion were passed into law in Texas that protect life and make this nasty procedure safer for women who choose it.

HB 2 was signed into law in July 2013. Its four major provisions require that abortion doctors have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles where they practice, ban abortion 20 weeks after fertilization, impose stricter controls on medically induced abortion, and require that abortion clinic facilities meet the same standards as those of ambulatory surgical centers.