Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has ordered that state officials launch an investigation into a state hospital allegedly profiting from “birth tourism.”
The governor sent a letter to Texas’ Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) Executive Commissioner Stephanie Muth on July 7 asking her to “immediately” begin an investigation into Mission Regional Medical Center over reports of advertised “birth packages in South Texas.”
According to Abbott’s letter, the advertisements were allegedly placed in foreign countries “in an apparent effort to profit from securing United States citizenship for their children.”
“Birth tourism is an illegal practice that exploits the extraordinary hospitality that the United States and Texas offer to millions of foreign travelers each year,” Abbott said….