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The claim: Texas doesn't have a hotline for suspected school shootings, but does have a hotline for reporting women entering Planned Parenthood
Soon after the shooting massacre of 19 elementary school students and two teachers in Uvalde, Texas, some social media posts claimed that Texas had a hotline for reporting abortions but not one for school shootings.
"Texas doesn't have a hotline if you see a man go into an elementary school classroom with his AR-15, but it does have a hotline if you see a woman go into a Planned Parenthood parking lot with her car," reads a post from the Twitter account of satirical writer Andrew Bradley, who uses the alias Betty Bowers.
This post was shared on Twitter more than 43,000 times and on Facebook and other platforms hundreds and hundreds of times.
"Pro-life my ass,'' wrote one Facebook user in a post of a screenshot of the tweet. The post was shared more than 350 times.
However, the tweet is not based in fact.