Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Friday he closed his offices statewide for the day “in honor of the nearly 70 million unborn babies killed in the womb since 1973,” and created an annual holiday to mark the Supreme Court decision that has overturned Roe v. Wade.
“June 24th will be an annual Office of the Attorney General holiday in recognition of this momentous decision—and the many lives lost before it,” Paxton’s office announced in a release.
“[W]e cannot forget the extraordinary violence that Roe and Casey unleashed on our nation,” the Republican attorney general said. “Because of those decisions, almost 70 million babies have been killed in the womb. And so, today at noon, I am closing all my offices as a memorial to these babies. Our hearts and prayers go out to all of them. Never again should something like this happen in America.”…