Some facts that might get in the way of the TX GOP anti-abortion advocates, courtesy of the CDC:

In 2007, most (62.3%) abortions were performed at ≤8 weeks’ gestation, and 91.5% were performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation. Few abortions (7.2%) were performed at 14—20 weeks’ gestation, and 1.3% were performed at ≥21 weeks’ gestation. During 1998—2007, the percentage of abortions performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation remained stable; however, abortions performed at ≥16 weeks’ gestation decreased by 13%—14%, and among the abortions performed at ≤13 weeks’ gestation, the percentage performed at ≤6 weeks’ gestation increased 65%.

The CDC also checks morbidity and mortality among women seeking abortions, and for 2007 they found 6 women who died as result of procedure. None died as result of illegal abortions (though to be fair, this was before Gosnell’s atrocities came to light).

That’s out of a total of 827,609 abortions were reported to CDC for 2007.

So, the TX GOP (and GOPers elsewhere) are looking to impose all manner of health and safety requirements that would force many clinics to close, ignoring that the mortality rate is better than 1 in 100,000 procedures.

That’s a vast improvement over the morbidity and mortality rates in a wide range of cosmetic surgical procedures, many of which are now done in settings outside of hospitals. And the other studies’ figures bear that out too.

#EDIT:
Forgot to throw in the conclusion here. Based on the claims for public safety that the GOPers are throwing around, they should be beating down the doors of plastic surgeons around the nation demanding that they clean up their acts, do procedures in facilities that meet the requirements they’re demanding of abortion clinics, and get their morbidity and mortality rates down.

Of course, these GOPers will retort and fixate on the lives of the fetuses being aborted, and care not one whit about the women seeking the procedures or why they may be seeking them.