“The Texas abortion law “provides at least six weeks for a person to be able to get an abortion.”
What PolitiFact found
When counting weeks in pregnancy, the calendar begins with the first day of the woman’s last period. That means that a woman with a typical cycle is four weeks pregnant by the time she misses her period.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Greg Abbott (governor of Texas) made this claim around 7 September 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 September 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Greg Abbott has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
This check was done by PolitiFact, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.